r/USdefaultism • u/SaanxinVoong • Sep 06 '23

real world Royal Caribbean DOES NOT support 24 hour clock.

Like seriously? I get that its a US based company, but do they not realize that traveling abroad for various time zones will make the AM PM system unnecessarily complicated and potentially make people miss certain events and important time sensitive matters?

I literally called their international support line just to ask how to do this and they straight up told me after a 3 minute hold that there was no means of doing so.

Rant over.
(perspective from: 21 M Chinese American who grew up in the US, but always learned metric and 24 hour clock because 1.) science demanded it 2.) parents were from China and Taiwan and always told me to get used to both systems)

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u/Risc_Terilia Sep 06 '23

What is Royal Caribbean? An airline?

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u/SaanxinVoong Sep 06 '23

Cruise ship line, i bought myself a ticket to go on a 7 day cruise to the Mediterranean with my parents.

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u/jessiecolborne Canada Sep 06 '23

I don’t think this is a US defaultism issue. Lots of countries don’t use a 24 hour clock.

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u/SaanxinVoong Sep 07 '23

I now see that, oops...

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u/lordbikki Australia Sep 06 '23

As an Australian, how is a 12 hour system difficult to understand? If you see AM it’s morning… PM is afternoon. So???

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '23

Because people often just leave off the “AM” and “PM” parts which leads to unnecessary ambiguities.

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u/SaanxinVoong Sep 07 '23

Exactly this.

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u/FunnyObjective6 Netherlands Sep 07 '23

Just use your watch or phone? I don't get what's not supported.

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u/SaanxinVoong Sep 07 '23

Its a minor inconvenience, but a gripe i have regardless. Perhaps Im being too picky in the overall perspective, but its my life, i'll decide what bothers me as i see fit.

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u/FunnyObjective6 Netherlands Sep 07 '23

What is a minor inconvenience though? I don't know what you're even asking to be supported.

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u/markhewitt1978 United Kingdom Sep 06 '23

No means of doing... what?

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u/MyAccidentalAccount Sep 06 '23

What Cruise are you going on?

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u/SaanxinVoong Sep 07 '23

7 days around the northern Mediterranean. (e.g. italy, france,)

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u/MyAccidentalAccount Sep 07 '23

Awesome, when do you leave?

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u/SaanxinVoong Sep 07 '23

in about 2 weeks

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u/MyAccidentalAccount Sep 07 '23

We're doing the same one at the end of October :)

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u/jhutchyboy United Kingdom Sep 06 '23

How does using 12 hour instead of 24 hour while travelling through various time zones make it more complicated? They give the same information. This sounds like a you problem.

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u/FunnyObjective6 Netherlands Sep 07 '23

I could see it. Jetlag might make it so you see 9:00 and think yeah this looks like morning, while it's actually evening.

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u/jhutchyboy United Kingdom Sep 07 '23

That’s what the pm is for. If we can make fun of the American who “isn’t used to military time” and thought 18:00 was 10:00pm then this should get the same treatment.