Re:New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 ...
by bigfatkitten on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:53PM
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Americans. The U.S. has a lot of people who are unaccustomed to 24 hour time.
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Re:New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 ...
by kridsdale1 on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:48PM
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It’s the whole Anglosphere. We do it, as well as imperial measurements, to give the finger to Napoleon and his metric 10 hour long day system.
Re:New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 ...
by pezezin on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:52PM
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But 24-hour time is not decimal, isn't it what you guys like?
Re:New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 ...
by Lio on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:25AM
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It’s not the whole Anglosphere.
24 hour time is used extensively in the UK. For example, all public transport uses 24 hour times here.
Re:New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 ...
by bestouff on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @05:40PM
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I knew for the imperial units but not this. This country ... let's say it always amaze me.
Re:New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 ...
by farlight on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @07:48PM
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They use US customary, not imperial, they're slightly different sets of units.
Re:New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 ...
by bestouff on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:10AM
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> Some advocates of the customary system saw the French Revolutionary, or metric, system as atheistic. The president of an Ohio auxiliary of the Institute wrote that the traditional units were "a just weight and a just measure, which alone are acceptable to the Lord". His organization later went so far as to publish music for a song proclaiming "down with every 'metric' scheme".
Ooh that explains a lot.