RE: Y2K heads up - is this troub -- MIDRANGE-L

Actually I've never met anyone who refers to it as "Twenty One o'clock". The term is "Twenty One hundred" or "Twenty One Hundred hours".

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Well, I'll be! I must lead a sheltered life! Do the British do this as well? Or is this strictly a non-English trait? Telling someone here in the states that you'll meet him at twenty-one o'clock would likely net you a blank stare. Excepting the military and computer technologists. >If I say to an american "call kme at 8", we do not know if I mean AM or PM. OTOH, if I say "call me at 3", you'll learn soon enough that the 15:00 is implied! Context usually determines whether or not to use AM/PM. "We're having dinner at 5:30." "The managers meeting is at 2:30." "She was born at 1:30AM yesterday." Dan Bale IT - AS/400 Handleman Company 248-362-4400 Ext. 4952 -------------------------- Original Message -------------------------- We just say meet me at twenty-one o'clock. It makes more sense because each hour has it's own number. If I say to an american "call kme at 8", we do not know if I mean AM or PM. Denis Robitaille Directeur services techniques Cascades Inc 819 363 5187 fax 819 363 5177 >>> D.BALE@handleman.com 12/05/00 09:00am >>> Well, hey, Richard, you know us Americans - do it right or don't do it at all! <g> >AM/PM Whoa! Americans are the only ones who use AM/PM? I never thought we were that original! How do you tell someone you want to meet them at 9:00PM? "Meet me at twenty-one hundred hours" "Meet me at twenty-one o'clock" "Meet me at nine o'clock tonight" Dan Bale IT - AS/400 Handleman Company 248-362-4400 Ext. 4952 -------------------------- Original Message -------------------------- >I think if everyone just used mm/dd/yyyy format, there wouldn't be an > issue > .... 02/03/2001 can only mean one thing.... FYI, as far as I know, only the USA are using this strange format (along with AM/PM...) Best regards Richard THEIS AS/400 Education, France theis_richard@fr.ibm.com

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