[ SECRET POST #3066 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3066 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Christopher Walken]


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[Harry Potter/Parvati Patil]


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[The Mummy]


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[tokyo ghoul]


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[Ioan Gruffudd/Alexander Siddig/Dominic Keating/Max Pirkis]











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Comments

Re: Things you think you should know how to do/about, but don't. (Or forgot.)

[making_excuses]

Yup, my entire country does and as such I have never had a need to actually know the AM/PM one.

It is quite practical, even if we don't use it religiously you only use the 13-24 part when there is an actual need for it, I don't tell my friends I will meet them at 18.00, I tell them I will meet them at 6. Except if I write it, then I'd probably write 18.00.

Also you've mentioned this before, and like then I wondered what on earth you work with which means you use 24 hour clocks and the metric system... You don't have to tell me, I'm just curious.

Re: Things you think you should know how to do/about, but don't. (Or forgot.)

[diet_poison]

I work in a medical lab.

It's crucial (particularly for certain tests) for accurate times to be recorded with regards to sample collection, and the 24-hour clock insures accuracy because you don't have to worry about someone forgetting to write AM or PM (and 12 hours can be the difference between a test that's perfectly doable or completely ruined). It's not just the lab; the entire hospital system runs on it.

Of course we also use the metric system for measuring volume, and I think that just goes more with the greater scientific community in the US having gotten on board with that ages ago. (We also used metric exclusively in science classes in high school and college even though imperial was used everywhere else.) It may also be that it's easier to be accurate without using weird (and potentially irrational) decimals because milliliters are so much smaller than fluid ounces, and if that's not small enough then you have microliters. Ah, powers of ten... :)