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Daylight Savings in your nations 12 v 24 hour time

Postby Kalaspia-Shimarata » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:37 am

Does your nation have daylight savings?

If your nation ha 24 hour a day, do you use 12 hour time

12 am, 1 am, 2am, 3am, 4am, 5am, 6am, 7am, 8am, 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm, 10pm, 11pm, 12am

or the FIRST type of 24 hour time:
0:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00, 19:00, 20:00, 21:00, 22:00, 23:00

or the SECOND type of 24 hour time:
1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00, 19:00, 20:00, 21:00, 22:00, 23:00, 24:00

Or a maybe a different type:
In Kalaspia-Shimarata, BOTH types of 24 hour time are extremely popular

Other forms of time, such as decimal time, 6 hour time, 12 hour time etc. are seen as EXTREMELY important secondaries.
There is much dispute about whether 0:00 is the first minute of the day and 23:59 is the last minute and midday is at 12:00 or 1:00 should be the first minute of the day and 24:59 be the last, with 13:00 being midday. It's currently 0:00 to 23:59, although, we are thinking of implimenting daylight savings where non-daylight savings is 0:00 to 23:59 and daylight savings is 1:00 to 24:59, but this is extremely complicated as 70% of the nation is in the Southern Hemispher 30% in the Northern. Although, we could alternate between the 2 hemispheres. This is a system we are testing out with our government civil issues testing department (aka our prisons)

But we find it really stupid to call it 1 hundred hours, 2 hundred hours etc, for two reasons...
1.The complexity of it
2."Hundred" is for a base-ten system, whilst time is a base-60 system

So since we have alot of tourists who use 12 hour time, we call it
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We currently do not impliment daylight savings as we do not like to interfere with UTC time, but we are currently testing it with prisoners.
Some watches and clocks are satellites as UTC is so important that our time-zones are split into seconds, and even in micro-seconds, rather than half-hours, though this is only really monitored by the Emporial [is that the right word, if not, please tell me] Bureau of time and most people don't care or bother, and there are half-hour based time zones too so people know where to change their watches without warring about seconds or minutes, and all satellite powered clocks and watches, including but not limited to clocks on mobile phones, internet time on computers, satellite powered watches change automatically, as satellites are required to automatically change them by law, and by law, all public clocks are set to the correct time

Byzantine time is used by the church

What about your nation?
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Postby Novus Niciae » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:49 am

Owing to the wide range of timezones and rotational periods the first type of 24 hour time is used with the standard being the local time at the capital.
Local time is used to coordinate things dependent on the day/night cycle such as work days and school hours (when it is around 24 hours long). But for things that require national coordination such as shipping schedules republic standard time is used.
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Postby Teddy Bear Republic » Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:01 am

The TBRE uses 12 hour time, and does employ daylight savings time due to our position on the planet.
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Postby Swilatia » Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:26 am

We use the 24-hour system (0:00 to 23:59) in Swilatia. "Daylight saving time" is not used, as it does not save daylight or really do anything useful.
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Postby Demirysis » Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:22 am

The United Federation uniformly employs the 24 Hour system.

There is no need for daylight savings on our planet.

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Postby Central Lothian » Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:53 am

We started using Daylight Savings Time in CL at the start of the Second World War, so that farmers could have longer in the summer to work on their farm. We kinda forgot to repeal that law afterwards and it has never been an issue.

As for the clock: the 24hr clock is used for official purposes, but you'll be more likely to hear the 12hr clock used.
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Postby Iglesian Archipelago » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:59 pm

Swilatia wrote:We use the 24-hour system (0:00 to 23:59) in Swilatia. "Daylight saving time" is not used, as it does not save daylight or really do anything useful.

^ This.

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Postby Auzkhia » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:44 pm

We use the 24 hour clock just like any logical nation would as there is 24 hours in a day.
Auzkhia doesn't use daylight saving time as it doesn't do anything useful.
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Postby New Saskatoon » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:47 pm

We use a 12 Hour Clock but have no DST

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Postby Arkiasis » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:03 pm

We use both the 24 hour and 12 hour clock and we abolished DST in 2007 as it was pointless.
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Postby Khymas Zjelsje » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:59 pm

Standard time separates the day into 10 "hours" (kvyl). There's not much need for something like DST, our planet's obliquity is negligible, so the sun rises/sets at more or less the same time everyday.

The "hours" are typically labeled 1 - 10 (va - sovj), and each is divided into 100 yvj, "minutes" if you prefer. So, a response to "kvytj dal?" (What time is it?) might be "ja sovj kho kyt mje" (562) or to get more specific, "yvj ja sovj kho, ta kvyl kyt mje" (62 "minutes", 5 "hours").

Note that Zjelsjen numerals and thus many things involving numbers (like clock times/dates) go smallest to greatest from left to right.
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Postby Kazarogkai » Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:04 pm

we do not recognize daylight savings time and use the second type of 24 hour time exclusively.
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Postby Aliekistan » Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:07 pm

Here in Aliekistan, we don't believe in the concept of time.

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Postby Lamoni » Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:37 pm

The Free Republic of Lamoni uses the (what the OP calls) the first 24 hour time. As we have never had a need for Daylight Savings Time, we have never implemented it.
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Postby The Eternal Kawaii » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:19 pm

Kawaiians tend to avoid using mechanical clocks, since we believe in "natural time". We divide the day into various periods by prayer-times, which are calculated by observing the position of the Sun. There is no need for "daylight savings time", since the time the work day begins and ends varies through the year as the Sun rises and sets earlier and later.
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Postby Phocidaea » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:47 pm

We do not have DST, use 12-hour time (because twelve is shorter to say aloud than 24, in English as well as Latin ("duodecim"/"viginti quattuor")), and fall into the UTC -2 time zone.
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Postby Zokoria » Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:37 am

We use the 24 hour clock (00:00-23:59) and the Daylight Saving Time (in Zokoria, we call it Summer Time).
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Postby Potlimitomaha » Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:45 am

24 hours or (as it's called in the local language) 24 horus.
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Postby Maraque » Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:52 am

Tsvarchi uses the 24 hour clock (01:00-24:00), and does not utilize DST.

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Postby New Vinland » Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:15 am

New Vinland uses the twelve hour clock. Daylight Savings Time is observed from the last Sunday of March until the last Sunday of October when Standard Time commences.
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Postby Dalodon » Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:41 pm

Dalodon used to implement daylights savings time in the mid 2000's. But since the Dictatorship in 2010, daylights saving time was scraped on day two.

There was no chance the leader was going to accept the land having solar noon which was 13:05 after the designated lunch hour of 12:00-13:00 so that was corrected. Now 6pm means roughly 6 hours after midday as it should whether it be daytime or sunset or night.
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Postby Veceria » Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:45 pm

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Postby Saurisisia » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:07 pm

Saurisia utilizes the 12-Hour Clock and DST.
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Postby Upper and Lower Benswana » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:10 pm

The barbaric practice of observing Daylight Savings Time is banned in our nation on pain of receiving a Nimitz-Class Wedgie and hung by one's underpants from a nearby street-sign.

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Postby Syleru » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:50 pm

We do not use daylight savings, and use a twenty four hour time system, as we do not want to upset the delicate schedule of our employed Syleruians.
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