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.

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 年前

    We are, and plenty of em.

    They just aren’t in English.

    So if we look for English content, we encounter fantasy metrics where you guys measure in the feet of a long dead king, and the idiotic AM/PM system that goes from 11 AM to 12 PM and then to 1 PM.

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      1 年前

      Why are you so obsessed with what Americans use for measurements? They aren’t forcing or even asking you to use it

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      1 年前

      Ok, then why blame us? “Oh no. Someone put up a sign for burgers and when I went inside, they had burgers! Im going to blame them!”

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      Also, plenty of countries use both 12 hour and 24 hour time. Its not hard.