Re: Not just dates get confused
Since I grew up in Europe the 24H system is second nature to me.
After I moved to the USA I figured it was just my European background that caused me to have a hard time with the 12H-system. Until...
1) A colleague showed up for work on Monday, although I thought he was supposed to have flown out to our European office the previous day. "Yes, but I got to the airport at night instead of in the morning."
2) A key server went down in the middle of the day. Somebody had confused am and pm when they created the cron-job.
Of course, the usual complaint was that the 24H-system is just "too hard". So far I've resisted the urge to tell them that my six-year-old niece knows that her favorite TV-show starts at 18 hours...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
