There are people simply not used to it, yes, but a subset of those profess active distaste for it. And a small subset of that group seem to go all the way to "cant' stand". I've got guesses as to their reasons for that reacion, but I'm playing armchair pshrink and have to admit that I don't actually know the insides of their skulls.
I just find 24-hour time less ambiguous ... but I apparently manage to upset some folks who do like 24-hour time because I use such non-military constructions as "a quarter to fifteen" or "half past twenty", and might say, "sixteen o'clock" instead of, "sixteen hundred". In a previous discussion about this, someone mentioned that there is some group that uses "my" phrasings ...
(To me that all just makes sense, but I confess it's the math-weenie/smartass part of me that says "a third past" or "a third of" instead of "twenty past" or "twenty of".)
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I just find 24-hour time less ambiguous ... but I apparently manage to upset some folks who do like 24-hour time because I use such non-military constructions as "a quarter to fifteen" or "half past twenty", and might say, "sixteen o'clock" instead of, "sixteen hundred". In a previous discussion about this, someone mentioned that there is some group that uses "my" phrasings ...
(To me that all just makes sense, but I confess it's the math-weenie/smartass part of me that says "a third past" or "a third of" instead of "twenty past" or "twenty of".)
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I still have to fight the urge to reduce fractions when I write checks. ;-)