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.

    • @[email protected]
      9•8 months 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).

      • roguetrick
        6•8 months ago

        We don’t use colons in our time in the American hospital system. We use them for a lot of other things though. (Pun)