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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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[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago

Just remember, civilian Americans aren't the one who named the time system that includes "Oh Six Hundred Hours" Military Time. It was the Goddamned Military. And when the Goddamned Military fucking tells you what something is called, you fucking call it that. No questions.

So we could flip our clock displays to 24 hour time and meet at 14 o'clock, but we'd still be civilians and unworthy to use Military Time. So why bother? Working 9 to 5 is bad enough, working 9 to 17 sounds too fucking exhausting.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Wow, 9-17 really does sound like a long fucking day, whereas 9-5 sounds way shorter.

But they're both the same and both far too much time spent at work.

[-] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

8 hours vs. -4 hours. I know what shift I'm picking, suckers.

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Joke's on you, have fun with your 20 hours shifts.

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 19 points 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.

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