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[鈥揮 [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

We use the ISO-8601 date and time format, mostly. We separate the portions by points, not dashes, though. So a typical date looks like this: 2023.12.22. If we shorten it without the year, it's 12.22., or 5.12. We say it with just the numbers, without the points, and shorten "h贸nap" (month) to "h贸". So its "5. h贸 12", basically "5th mo' 12".

For time we use the 24H format, regularly even in everyday speech. If it's very clear that you are in the late afternoon or evening, you just say "6 o'clock 24" or "13 o'clock 46".

So always from bigger to smaller "powers". It's auto-sorted on most filesystems, table of contents etc. and very clear in everyday use. It's nice.

Hungary.

[鈥揮 [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I'm so in favor of that time format, both 8601 and 24 hour.

[鈥揮 [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just to be pedantic, iso 8601 stipulates that the delimiting character is a "-" not a "."

[鈥揮 [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That's why I said "mostly". (Points instead of dashes.)

[鈥揮 [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I generally prefer dates ordered from most to least prominence myself, but any ordering is better than the weird flip flopped month day then year thing we got Stateside.

Interesting that y'all say o'clock before the minutes, tho! Haven't seen that before.

[鈥揮 [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We basically say "hour", but hour and o'clock is the very same word in my language: "贸ra"

[鈥揮 [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Bit like in Dutch, actually, with the Dutch word being uur. "Het is zes uur" for six o'clock.

[鈥揮 [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Szoszi k茅rsz elad贸 bojlert?

[鈥揮 [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Nice date format, too bad about orban though 馃し

[鈥揮 [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[鈥揮 [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Slight mixup with a polish party

[鈥揮 [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It makes more sense now, yes. And you are absolutely right. Most Hungarians despise that piece of shit, myself included.

[鈥揮 [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If it's very clear that you are in the late afternoon or evening, you just say "6 o'clock 24" or "13 o'clock 46".

Isn't 6 o'clock 24 in the morning?

[鈥揮 [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When it's obvious that you are talking about the evening, like it's winter, dark, and you are walking on the street and somebody asks what time it is, you just say 6 o'clock/hour 24.

[鈥揮 [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you for explaining.