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Fixed several countries, mostly in Oceania. Australia, PNG, NZ and the Pacific Islands all use 12-hour time (except in some exceptional cases e.g flight times) 12:12, 7 May 2024: 2,754 × 1,398 (1.05 MB) Amiria703: Iran (IR) changed to 24 hour (12 hour orally) 21:05, 10 December 2022: 2,754 × 1,398 (1.05 MB) Getsnoopy
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In the same year, Pan American World Airways Corporation and Western Airlines in the United States both adopted the 24-hour clock. [26] In modern times, the BBC uses a mixture of both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock. [25] British Rail, London Transport, and the London Underground switched to the 24-hour clock for timetables in 1964. [25]
George Orwell uses the 12-hour and 24-hour dials to symbolize the old and new worlds in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The 12-hour dial is a relic of pre-revolutionary society, used to represent the desirable past; the 24-hour dial and time system is the compulsory standard imposed by the Party, and represents both conformity and the ...
A second type of clock face is the 24-hour analog dial, widely used in military and other organizations that use 24-hour time. This is similar to the 12-hour dial above, except it has hours numbered 1–24 (or 0–23) around the outside, and the hour hand makes only one revolution per day.
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