It's just so useless! If the time is 1:30 pm, why not call it 13:30??? The Swedish way is much MUCH more better. It just confuzzlez* everything if you do Pm and Am.
My cell phone clock is running on am/pm, because I want to learn which is which. So I have no problems with it. I think it is worse when it comes to distance and mass: Miles, yards, inches, ounces (word?), stuff like that. Basically because a "mile" and basically all the other things are the old way of messuring in DK. So that is a problem to me, but never the am/pm.
I see no problem. I mean, yes the 24-hour clock is a lot simpler, but it's not a big deal. Maybe if you ask Carlie to change this you will get a laugh in the face. try!
The AM PM system is hardcoded into my system. I learned it and coded it into me from an early age. Now, why is the 24 hour clock simpler? Were you born using it? Though AM and PM seem to be acronyms that stand for nothing, it is quite simple to know the difference of these without confusion. At least for me since I familiarized myself with this years ago.
I am not sure how many countries that use the am/pm, but the scandinavian countries do not. We are raised with the 24 hour clock, and it is pretty much the easiest for us. The am/pm does not make much sense, because, as you said the acronyms does not mean anything, so no help there. Besides that, it took a long time before I found out that 12am is 00:00 to me, so if I wanted my cell to wake me at noon, it should be put up at 12pm. I have overslept because of that.
Well, I can never understand your plight. I was born following the opposite system that you use. Anyway, I don't know why I am familiar with both the 12 hour and 24 hour clocks. I don't use the 24 hour clock much but I never get confused. Now let us hope that you get out of your state of utter confusion. Alarm clocks never are able to wake me up. I cannot hear a thing while sleeping. Many countries use the AM PM system but why doesn't Scandinavian countries use that system.
AM stands for ante meridiem. (before noon) PM stands for post meridiem. (after noon)
Both seem simple enough. At primary school the 12 hour clock was used so that is easier for me. Strange that when you use the 24 hour system for long enough you don;t have to subtract 12 any more you just automatically see 14:00 as 2:00 pm, so no conversion is needed.
The main struggle with time I have is with analogue. I can not understand why it is used when digital just tells you the time straight off. For me it is like riding a horse hwne you have a Ferrari in the garage.
