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.

    • DasRundeEtwas@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      In Switzerland it works like that too.

      “Normal time” for us is 24h with colon so 18:00

      While “Military time” is without colon, so 1800 and is then pronounced as achtzehnhundert (eighteen hundred).