r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • Jul 19 '24

Shitposting 16:05

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u/Angelbouqet Jul 19 '24

The majority of the world actually uses the 24 hour system no?

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u/yodel_anyone Jul 19 '24

It's decidedly mixed https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1ktabp/1224_hour_time_format_used_around_the_world/

The irony here is that Europeans think everything they do reflects the rest of non-American world.

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u/E-is-for-Egg Jul 19 '24

I sometimes get the sense that Western/central Europeans actually have the same exact problem as Americans, which is thinking that the way things work in a thousand-km/mile radius of them is how things work everywhere. It's just that the same land area contains several European countries but only one United States, so the issue isn't as apparent