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Message no. 1
From: Fro <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: 24hr time (was Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!)
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 17:42:48 -0700
At 17:23 12/31/96 -0700, you wrote:
>> Nahhh... We use the am/pm thing as well as the 24 hour clock....
>>
>> We only use the 24 hour clock to avoid confusion....
>
>
>Wait...now i'm confused?!?!!?!?

Don't be, just use 24 hour time :) Much much easier..its too bad most
consumer items such as VCR's, microwaves etc are set to am/pm.

Fro
Message no. 2
From: Caric <caric@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: 24hr time (was Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!)
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 17:36:49 -0700
> >> We only use the 24 hour clock to avoid confusion....
> >
> >
> >Wait...now i'm confused?!?!!?!?
>
> Don't be, just use 24 hour time :) Much much easier..its too bad most
> consumer items such as VCR's, microwaves etc are set to am/pm.
>
> Fro

I'm still waiting for us Americans to deign to use the metric system :)

I agree though 24 hour clocks make it much easier.

~Caric

"All the world's indeed a stage, we are mearly players.
Performers and portrayers. Each anothers audience,
outside the gilded cage." -Rush
caric@*******.com ~Caric

"All the world's indeed a stage, we are mearly players.
Performers and portrayers. Each anothers audience,
outside the gilded cage." -Rush
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Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: 24hr time (was Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!)
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 11:46:49 +0100
Caric said on 17:36/31 Dec 96...

> I'm still waiting for us Americans to deign to use the metric system :)
>
> I agree though 24 hour clocks make it much easier.

24-hour clocks make using the metric system easier? I never knew that...
:)

> "All the world's indeed a stage, we are mearly players.
> Performers and portrayers. Each anothers audience,
> outside the gilded cage." -Rush
> caric@*******.com ~Caric
>
> "All the world's indeed a stage, we are mearly players.
> Performers and portrayers. Each anothers audience,
> outside the gilded cage." -Rush
> caric@*******.com

One signature is enough, thank you :)

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Message no. 4
From: "Falin \"Dark-Claw\"" <jhyatt@****.WINCOM.NET>
Subject: Re: 24hr time (was Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!)
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 09:15:52 -0500
> Caric said on 17:36/31 Dec 96...
>
> I'm still waiting for us Americans to deign to use the metric system :)
> I agree though 24 hour clocks make it much easier.

they tried a metric time system once, I remember hearing about it on a science show
and reading about it popular mechanics.


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Message no. 5
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: 24hr time (was Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:20:02 +0100
Falin \ said on 9:15/ 1 Jan 97...

> they tried a metric time system once, I remember hearing about it on a science show
> and reading about it popular mechanics.

I believe that was an idea the French tried to put into practice in the
late 18th century, but when Napoleon came to power he did away with it
because it was too complicated (a different name for each day of the year,
that sort of thing).

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Message no. 6
From: Caric <caric@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: 24hr time (was Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 09:46:13 -0700
> > I'm still waiting for us Americans to deign to use the metric system :)
> >
> > I agree though 24 hour clocks make it much easier.
>
> 24-hour clocks make using the metric system easier? I never knew that...
> :)

Well it is a little known fact...;)

> One signature is enough, thank you :)

Hmmmm...obvious wierdness with the mailer...or I am a dolt and hit the
button twice...both are entirely possible...sorry =)
Message no. 7
From: Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET>
Subject: Re: 24hr time (was Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!)
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 01:28:15 +0000
> I'm still waiting for us Americans to deign to use the metric system :)
>
> I agree though 24 hour clocks make it much easier.

It's just civilian America that refuses to go metric and 24hour. The
military has been doing it for years. (at least mostly)


--Droopy
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Message no. 8
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: 24hr time (was Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!)
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 16:28:09 +0000
|
|> I'm still waiting for us Americans to deign to use the metric system :)
|>
|> I agree though 24 hour clocks make it much easier.
|
|It's just civilian America that refuses to go metric and 24hour. The
|military has been doing it for years. (at least mostly)

I wish we'd stayed metric....

I'm still more at home with pounds/ounces/feet/inches and miles than the
european alternative.....
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