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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by Koshkin on Thursday October 26, 2017 @06:55PM (#15563966)
Well, in English, you can't say "16 o'clock", can you? You can only say "sixteen hundred hours" (which sounds terrible, if you ask me).
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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 26, 2017 @08:10PM (#15564441)
> Well, in English, you can't say "16 o'clock", can you? You can only say "sixteen hundred hours"

What's stopping you?

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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by mitchty on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:36PM (#15565242)
Nothing, get enough people saying it and it will become the thing.

I'd vote for sixteen hour or something similar.

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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by tyingq on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:05AM (#15567888)
That's how they say it in Germany...sechzehn uhr
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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by mitchty on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:30AM (#15568667)
Yep, thats why I'm voting for it in English too. Just use the German method and keep it simple.
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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by BrandoElFollito on Saturday October 28, 2017 @10:27AM (#15575225)
In French : 16 hours (seize heures) In Polish even simpler: 16-th (szesnasta)
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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by emilfihlman on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:31AM (#15567383)
16 o'clock sounds just fine.
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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by shmerl on Thursday October 26, 2017 @07:05PM (#15564034)
Yeah, sixteen hundred hours sounds awful. Sixteen o-five sounds OK to me though.
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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by jpatokal on Thursday October 26, 2017 @08:24PM (#15564526)
You can if you're George Orwell writing 1984:

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by rconti on Thursday October 26, 2017 @08:10PM (#15564445)
how about "16 hours" or "1600"
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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:32AM (#15566181)
“hours” denotes a duration. Times and durations should be distinguishable to avoid ambiguity. 16 o'clock = time, 16 hours = duration.
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Re:Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone by richardknop on Friday October 27, 2017 @06:37AM (#15567138)
16 hours is shortcut for 16 hours from midnight.
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