Agree with you @ryansmith0518 and I am Birtish ! I am not familiar with your ‘memory aid’ but whatever works for you.
I think Justin has “muddied the water” by dismissing the US system and “reinventing the wheel” with another definition of Steps.
Personally, I find it easy to understand visually the Steps/ Half-steps , the Tones/ Semi-tones, and Sharps/Flats simply looking at the 12 notes from Middle C to the first Octave C above it (eg. C to C).
There is a Tone or Whole Step each time you pass by a Black Note while moving up through the White Notes.
The EF and BC are also obvious having no Black Notes in between; therefore they are Half Steps or Semi Tones.
The clock-face is a circular representation of the linear piano scale; and it might make it a more ‘visual tool’ for some people.
Does any of this matter ? Not really; whatever works for the individual to help them remember the construct of a Major Scale.