Military Time vs 24hr? - eviltoast

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.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The military have longer days than us plebs. They have twenty-four hundred hours when we get a measly twenty-four.

    Unfair.