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Why is it that Americans refer to 24 hour time as military time? I understand that the military uses the 24hr format but I don’t understand why the general public would refer to it like that?

It makes it seem like it’s a foreign concept where as in a lot of countries it’s the norm.

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[-] Armacadia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Doesn't military time also use 24th hour followed by hour 1 instead of 0?

[-] dfc09@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Army here, we always say 0000 for midnight, but honestly that's probably just because it's what our phones and watches call it. Perhaps it was different before electronic timekeeping was the norm.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

That's interesting. Marine here and once when I was deployed and writing up "significant event" reports for briefs, the Watch Officer never wanted to say 0000. He thought it would be too confusing when looking back and trying to figure which day it actually was. Is 0000 on 20231023 Monday at midnight or Sunday at midnight? He had us use either 2359 or 0001 and the date to clarify. 0000 didn't exist for him, but it might have just been his own personal pet peeve.

It's pretty commonly done with 12hr time too, for the same reason: to help protect against stupidity.

[-] dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

00:00 is the time with the new ("tomorrow") date, 24:00 is the time with the old ("yesterday") date.

24:00 isnt really used, in my experience. Also, many people dont mentally switch dates until they went to bed.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Watch officers HATE this one ambiguous millitary time/dating convention

[-] Acamon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's interesting. How do they say it out loud? If 6am / 6:00 / 0600 is said "oh six hundred", is 0000 "oh oh hundred"? "oh zero hundred"? "zero thousand"? "quadruple oh"?

[-] dfc09@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Oh-zero-hundred or zero-hundred if we gotta. Generally.... Midnight lol

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

oh oh oh oh

zero zero zero zero

oh zero hundred

midnight

twelve

what a trip

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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