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.

  • PlexSheep@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Good comment. Thanks!

    Isn’t the second defined by light traveling a specific distance in vacuum?

    To add to that, I wish we all just used UTC. Time zones are useless, we could all just adjust to the universal time in local schedules.

    Also: english could be renamed to common and it would make sense.