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• epic_rim1

  When the time of day is 16:00, do you say 16 o'clock or just pass out from drinking all day?

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  • During these covid times, almost the latter. Give us some credit though - three huppny's worth of warm afternoon shandies get us through to at least 174532Nairn
  • The UK doesn't use 24hr time because no-one can count past 12.face_melter
  • 24 hrs is written and, i think generally used in the uk - but you'd say 'four o'clock', in the process doing some magical chrono-linguisitc translationNairn
  • actually, being british, you'd probably say tea timehans_glib

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