From phm@A2E.DE Fri May 12 01:12:55 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24315 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 08:12:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 May 2000 08:12:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.camelot.de) (195.30.224.3) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 May 2000 08:12:54 -0000 Received: from robin.camelot.de (uucp@robin.camelot.de [195.30.224.3]) by mail.camelot.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03863; Fri, 12 May 2000 10:12:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from oas.a2e.de (uucp@localhost) by robin.camelot.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id KAA03860; Fri, 12 May 2000 10:12:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost by wtao97 via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 07:58:46 +0000 (/etc/localtime) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1999-Nov-8) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 07:58:45 +0000 (/etc/localtime) X-Sender: phm@wtao97.oas.a2e.de To: Thorild Selen Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: 24h counting In-Reply-To: <200005120014.CAA21294@Zeke.Update.UU.SE> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: PILCH Hartmut > most ought to be able to count from 0 to 23 in a > modern society. I'd like to know how common it is to use a 24-hr > format in other parts of the world; I can say that in Sweden it is > quite common, although less common in informal speech. It seems to > be quite common in Poland too, so at least we're not alone... Does > anyone have any comments on this?) In Germany it has been common for a long time, although, as you say for Sweden, more in formal than in colloquial speech. Recently it has started becoming accepted in China and Japan. It is least accepted in Hongkong, due to British influence I think. -phm