Talk:Date and time notation in Europe

24h spoken time in Suisse Romande

"In Switzerland, only the 12-hour clock is used in speech." <-- I do not believe this to be correct in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, however I live quite close to France, my French is not good enough to distinguish dialects, and I have no sources. Hopefully someone could verify/correct this. --128.141.170.49 (talk) 10:17, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Times like "halb drei" (half three) are only used in dialect. Northern German people don't use this either. 2003:86:8A07:6B07:B6D5:BDFF:FE20:A28D (talk) 10:51, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ref. 1 in article

This document is hilarious. Just look at the date of it ;-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.39.140.196 (talk) 14:24, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article text is:

Official EU documents still tend to use DD.MM.YYYY but one document specifies the use of ISO 8601: "Dates should be formatted by the following format: YYYY-MM-DD."

And the corresponding reference https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/3/2016/EN/3-2016-2711-EN-F1-1-ANNEX-1.PDF has a date of 13.6.2016 (dmy) while recommending to use ISO 8601 (ymd). The EU document is inconsistent but at least WP is accurately reporting the inconsistency. Although, to be fair, the EU doc is making recommendations about a particular volumen cap mechanism, not about date formats used in EU regulation documents in general. Stepho talk 20:03, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Absolute time format in the Hungarian spoken language

In Hungary, we are using the following format, and rather frequently: "negyed három" (quarter three) "fél három" (half three) "háromnegyed három" (three-quarter three)