Military Time vs 24hr?
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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Americans are stupid when it comes to converting 24hrs "Militery time" to 1 pm, 2 pm, ext. making them all confused.
Ignorance is not stupidity.
My company used to always use 24hr time when we were using a DOS based system. Then we upgraded to Windows Server 2009 and everything changed to 12hr. I preferred the 24hr. There were less mistakes.
*fewer
*Smellfungus
Different places have different cultures and traditions. In the US, 12hr time is standard. 24hr time is used mostly by the military.
There are certainly arguments for why 24hr time is a better system. That doesn't make it stupid to continue to use a slightly inferior system. Most cultures don't try to adapt best practices from around the world.