>>>>Even better, come November, we'll have an interesting second (twice):
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>>>Once. Unless you share the common illusion that the day has 12 hours twice. We learn that it has 24 hours.
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>>If a day has twenty four hours how many does a night have ?
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>>We're also under the illusion that the year has 30 odd days twelve times over. We learn that it has 365.....
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>>Anyway the use of the 24hr notation is pretty recent outside scientific use. Even the military were using a twelve hour clock during WW1. I think only the advent of digital watches made the 24hr notation more acceptable to most people - and I still very rarely hear it used in general conversation. When was the last time you agreed to meet someone at the pub at 2030 hrs ?
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>1991 :o)

That can't be right there are no pubs where you live.