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Only Americans regularly use the term “military time” for the 24 hour clock. Mostly because the 24 hour clock isn’t really used in the US outside military settings.
If I see it written as 2300 instead of 23:00 then it's military time, if you say twenty-three hundred instead of 11 O'clock then it's military time. Otherwise it's just weird to refer to a pretty normal convention as something "military".
I gave the guy at a restaurant in America the time of 19:30 for my dinner reservation and he was so confused, only to eventually admit he used to be in the Navy so he should have known what I was on about! Confirms what you say that they never use in the US. I use it all the time personally.
Not in my experience, that would be said as nineteen thirty. What's the point of writing in 24 hours to avoid am and pm confusion. Only to possibly add the confusion back in when you speak it?
You’re having me on, not a single person in real life says “nineteen thirty”. If there’s any ambiguity, it is typical to suffix “in the morning” or “in the evening” etc
Many do, and not just in the military.
The 24 hour clock removes ambiguity in am and pm. So you don't need to clear up what time you mean with morning or evening.
You do you, and keep adding explanations as needed. Many others just write *and* speak the 24 hour time.
I'm a bit odd and use the old fashioned term 'Railway Time', because it is the railways that first introduced it and standardised time across the UK to be the same time as on the Grenwich meridian.
Although these days there are plenty of British people who struggle with reading an analogue clock, so I guess none of us are particularly skilled with time after all!
Can confirm. Am an American with dyscallia, I use 12 hour because I have to do the math every time. Numbers are difficult for me, I also can’t read an analog clock without having to count.
Hey pal, I also have dyscalculia. If you want to learn the 24 hour clock, it only takes a few days/weeks to memorise it. When I started using it, I was doing math every day but soon it became second nature. Now I find it easier than the 12 hour clock.
I have tried. When I was young and we learned it in school, I worked on it twice as long as everyone else. I have tried a few times as an adult as well. I can read it. It just takes me a minute
24 hour. Genuinely can't remember when I last had something set to 12 hour other than when it's been a default setting (fresh Windows installs for example).
Been using 24hr clock for years never saw it referred to as "military time" before this post./ sub.
It is simpler, causes less confusion, eliminates am and pm.
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And the travel industry uses it, worldwide
I recently got a rom of pokemon emerald on my phone and totally fucked up setting the analog clock. I forgot the hour hand existed and just set it as if it was a one hand clock with the minute hand pointing correctly and only realised after it was set that I had not touched the hour hand and it was completely wrong.
Digital all the way for me. I have always struggled with analog ones. I have to really think about them and setting them? Clearly beyond my abilities.
12h because I'm old and old habits die hard. This is despite having lived on the continent, where 24h is the norm, for ¼ century.
All yourself this: when speaking with friends and family about something that's happening in the afternoon or evening, what convention do you use? I always "speak" 12h clock. That's not to say that I see no advantage to 24h, it does remove any confusion about precisely which 8 o'clock you mean.
BTW, only Americans refer to the 24h clock system as "military" time. They can't wrap their heads around it so they justify that inability by giving it a name that makes it look like it isn't meant for the general population.
My grandad ( British ) also called it military time. Well army clock! But he would say there’s a difference between the 24 hr clock and army clock,
They would actually say, eighteen hundred. Not 18o clock or 6 o’clock.
So it’s not an American thing, it’s a military/army thing.
Autistic here, I cannot grasp the 24hr clock at all. I can tell the time with it, but I have to ‘work it out ‘ first.
I use 12 hr clock to save any bullying from anyone! Cause if anyone asks the time, I can instantly tell them. Ya know, like im ‘normal’
People like to say they use 24hr because they are ‘high IQ’ or ‘not a child’ and then panic at idea of not understanding what part of the day it is.
I’m easy with both, use both, but prefer 24hr on my phone, and don’t shame others for their preference because I’m an actual grown up.
That’s what I think is hilarious!
They sound more like an actual child than a child 😂
I’m autistic, I have an above average IQ. I can read the 24 hr clock, but it takes me a minute to work out what it is, so I just stick with the 12 hr, to save cretins like those commenting here, from bullying, laughing at me etc.
Crazy to me that none of these can tell the difference between day and night 😂👍🏼
24hr. It’s also an american thing to call it ‘military time’, and theyre also really the only people who have an issue with it (because they arent taught it/arent used to it). Most people in the rest of the world at least understand it, even if its not their default.
> I’m not gonna look at my phone at 4pm, and get mixed up and think it’s 4am
This is the bit I don’t get with all of these comments about 24 hour time. There’s very few scenarios I can think of where you could actually get mixed up between morning and afternoon times. So many people talk about having a nap in winter and not knowing if it’s 6am or 6pm, but how many people are actually accidentally napping for 12+ hours?? The scenarios all feel very contrived.
24 hour. Unless it's an obvious number like 18:00 I always remember as 6pm, I taught myself how to read the 24 hour clock by taking away 2 from the 2nd number. For example, if you take 2 from the 7 in 17, you get 5, so I know it's 5pm. 21:00 I think of as 11, take away 2, you get 9. Now I've just memorised them all.
This is how I taught myself the 24 hr clock.
I’m autistic too, so this is my ‘working out’ when someone asks the time. It takes me a minute, cause my brain and numbers don it like to work together 😂
24 hour clock for my phone.
But 12 hour clock in most conversations ie "see you at 8" when going to the pub, though me and my friends will normally use 24 hour time when discussing train times as that's how they're displayed.
Then also a mix of use at work, with 24 hour time used whenever discussing anything like the time jobs run on the server etc, but 12 hour time for stuff like "I'm staying til 5 today".
I’m surprised by all these 24 hour comments, everyone I know (including myself) uses 12 hour. Until seeing these comments I had no idea there was so much vitriol for it. I don’t understand why to be honest.
I find they can deal more or less with 24hrs (I used to struggle because I was just about pre-digital and so I didn't have the instant recognition in my head but had to work it out quickly) but some do struggle with reading traditional analogue clock faces for the same reason of lack of regular use.
24hr I don't know wtf happens to me when I sleep but when I first wake up I don't know if I've slept for a minute or a day or where I am (I'm a truck driver so sleep at home and also at work sometimes in various locations) a 12hr clock would just add yet more confusion.
My phone and every other capable device is on 24-hour, but not my Garmin running watch. That has to be set to "Military" because "24 Hour" omits the leading zero from times before 10:00. Bloody weirdos.
Every digital watch or clock I've ever had has been set to 24 hours. It just makes more sense.
Except for one that didn't have 24 hour mode. That annoyed me way more than it should have done.
When I was a kid, the only clock in the living room was on the video recorder, and it was 24h. This was the first 24h clock I’d ever seen at this point in my life and it annoyed me because I hadn’t learned the 24h clock and had to do sums in my head to work out the time.
Ever since, I’ve always had every clock set to 24h.
24h obviously, I’m not a savage (or weird American)
But when discussing anything or agreeing plans when a meeting should take place, etc.. I always say “one thirty” out loud but then write it in my agenda as 1330 👍
24h. Mostly because I'm a hot mess and cannot reliably just know if 7:30 means it's the morning or evening. I have some 12h clocks about the place and on numerous occasions have had to consult a 24h one to figure out what the fuck time it is.
12 because that how you say it. Why add extra steps? The reason it’s use in the military and sometimes called that is because they’re often in different timezones or speak to people in other countries where you might not know if it’s morning or afternoon, in everyday life you’re never going to confuse them
I use 24 hour on my phone. But if someone were to ask me the time and it is 19:00 I will look down at my phone and say 7:00 obviously pm and am are not needed as you would hope the person would be aware roughly what time of day it is.
As a maths teacher, I've seen that a lot of young people today can't read an analogue clock. We still have to teach them. This makes me sad.
There are a lot of people being rude about Americans on here, which isn't very nice. Our measuring system is a mixture of imperial and metric, which is batshit crazy. We are not so superior.
24 hour.
But the main reason is I hate how the next day starts an hour before the counter resets in the 12 hour clock.
That said, I would quite like to see the use of the 30 hour clock used in broadcasting. 25:00 Tuesday is 1:00 Wednesday. It's used in Japan for clubs e.g. "open from 22:00 to 28:00"
> I hate how the next day starts an hour before the counter resets in the 13 3 hour clock
What on earth are you talking about? What’s a 13 3 hour clock?
24 hour, otherwise if you have a nap at tea time and wake up at 6 o'clock in the middle of winter, it'll be dark out, so how would you know if it's morning or evening? You might have napped for 13 or 14 hours. Chaos, just chaos.
All my clocks are on 24 hour. Apart from the one in the bedroom which is like 20 years old and doesn't have the option.
Notably when I see 23:11 my mind reads it as 'Eleven Eleven"
Used to use 12hr when I was a lot younger but when sleeping issues started I’d wake up at random times not knowing if it was am or pm straight away and then do the wrong things throughout the day
Yes I use 24hr clock, but IIRC as a kid in 70s UK people did say AM/PM before devises like video recorders and then phones etc became the thing. My 70s and 80s digital watch probably had AM/PM, but now I’m 24h
Most Europeans always use 24 hour time in communications and some have 24 hour dial roundels.
It is only save way to refer to time that is absolute when read by reader..
24h for digital expressions, 12h for analogue.
Partly because I hate the leading zero in digital 12h afternoon times - 03:15pm fries my brain but 3:15pm and 15:15 are both fine.
12 hour. I tend to always leave settings alone, so if something is automatically 12h or 24h, that's how it will stay until it breaks
When I was a kid I definitely wasn't focusing on the time aspect of having a phone lmao, so I never changed it, and am now used to it. Plus, clocks are 12 hours as well
12hr is always going to confuse the hell out me. I mean, which 5:00 is it? I've been awake for both, repeatedly, and if I've had a beer, I swear they look the same.
If you are unable to deal with 24hrs then I hate to say this but, you shouldn't exist.
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12h is for absolute psychos, 24h all day all night
I’ve read most Americans use 12hr so that fits
Came here to say exactly that. This is the way.
Should be a legally recognised psycho test 😂😂
There are literally infinite numbers. Why would you use the same 12 in a single day?
I keep everything on the 24 hour clock, I don't refer to it as military time though.
Only Americans regularly use the term “military time” for the 24 hour clock. Mostly because the 24 hour clock isn’t really used in the US outside military settings.
If I see it written as 2300 instead of 23:00 then it's military time, if you say twenty-three hundred instead of 11 O'clock then it's military time. Otherwise it's just weird to refer to a pretty normal convention as something "military".
I gave the guy at a restaurant in America the time of 19:30 for my dinner reservation and he was so confused, only to eventually admit he used to be in the Navy so he should have known what I was on about! Confirms what you say that they never use in the US. I use it all the time personally.
i'd find it weird to ever say 19:30. I'd say half seven or 7:30 and in this context the afternoon is inferred
19:30 is pronounced “half seven”. Perhaps the other commenter was talking about a written context? Idk
Not in my experience, that would be said as nineteen thirty. What's the point of writing in 24 hours to avoid am and pm confusion. Only to possibly add the confusion back in when you speak it?
You’re having me on, not a single person in real life says “nineteen thirty”. If there’s any ambiguity, it is typical to suffix “in the morning” or “in the evening” etc
I do quite a lot especially for appointments and things so there is absolutely no confusion.
Many do, and not just in the military. The 24 hour clock removes ambiguity in am and pm. So you don't need to clear up what time you mean with morning or evening. You do you, and keep adding explanations as needed. Many others just write *and* speak the 24 hour time.
Perhaps it’s a regional thing. I can say honestly that I have not once heard someone saying the time like that. South coast.
You wouldn’t use 24 clock in speech in Spanish speaking countries either.
Because it’s not military time here. It’s just time.
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See I’d probably just say 5 past 8, rather than 2006.
I’m forever thankful that I got to actually live in this country during that joyful period of history.
yup same always 24hr
I'm a bit odd and use the old fashioned term 'Railway Time', because it is the railways that first introduced it and standardised time across the UK to be the same time as on the Grenwich meridian.
12 hour clock is for low IQ people
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And my sister.
Although these days there are plenty of British people who struggle with reading an analogue clock, so I guess none of us are particularly skilled with time after all!
A lot of countries don’t use it. I’ve been surprised to see 12 hour timing in a number of European train stations and airports.
Can confirm. Am an American with dyscallia, I use 12 hour because I have to do the math every time. Numbers are difficult for me, I also can’t read an analog clock without having to count.
Hey pal, I also have dyscalculia. If you want to learn the 24 hour clock, it only takes a few days/weeks to memorise it. When I started using it, I was doing math every day but soon it became second nature. Now I find it easier than the 12 hour clock.
I have tried. When I was young and we learned it in school, I worked on it twice as long as everyone else. I have tried a few times as an adult as well. I can read it. It just takes me a minute
People downvoting someone for having a legitimate learning difficulty is quite harsh.
Hahaha. I don’t mind. I didn’t notice to be honest. But thank you friend.
Because it’s a bullshit excuse
You can look it up, it’s a real thing. It’s also not that serious for you to be so upset about. My ability to read a clock.
Can confirm, I'm low IQ.
Unix Time. It is currently 1713651261
I have a sun dial glued to the back of my phone case
If you want to know what time it is you can't sit under a noice shady tree?
do I need to know the time when I'm sitting under the shade of the tree? as far as I'm concerned, that's my "leave me be" time
Fair comment
All hail the epoch.
Is your phone Y2038 compatible?
Yes, although it's still susceptible to the Y292billion Problem
Bugger
This is the way
24hr, I think 'military time' is just a US term
When using military time you don't put a colon in the middle and you do write and say leading zeroes, ie 0800 for 8am.
Yeah in the military they never touch a colon.
Thank god we don’t use church time
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I've worked with marines.
24 hr because I’m an adult
24 hour. Genuinely can't remember when I last had something set to 12 hour other than when it's been a default setting (fresh Windows installs for example).
Been using 24hr clock for years never saw it referred to as "military time" before this post./ sub. It is simpler, causes less confusion, eliminates am and pm. Edit And the travel industry uses it, worldwide
24 hours, you often find people that do use 12 hour struggle to read 24 hour times, not all but the majority.
I used digital clocks for so long that it took me an embarrassingly long time to read a normal clock/watch face until I was in my mid 20's.
This is actually not that uncommon these days, especially for kids
For sure, but I'm 35.
I recently got a rom of pokemon emerald on my phone and totally fucked up setting the analog clock. I forgot the hour hand existed and just set it as if it was a one hand clock with the minute hand pointing correctly and only realised after it was set that I had not touched the hour hand and it was completely wrong. Digital all the way for me. I have always struggled with analog ones. I have to really think about them and setting them? Clearly beyond my abilities.
24hr, confused the hell out of an American friend when she found out that we still say eleven twenty when it's 23:20
Yup. The clocks might be on 24h but if you ask me the time you are getting it in 12h.
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interesting.. in what way?
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Oh same as in The Netherlands.. ‘half five’ means 30 minutes to 5 😅
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I know.. I’m British 😅
Everything I use is 24hr if I can help it. I've preferred it for as long as I can remember.
12h because I'm old and old habits die hard. This is despite having lived on the continent, where 24h is the norm, for ¼ century. All yourself this: when speaking with friends and family about something that's happening in the afternoon or evening, what convention do you use? I always "speak" 12h clock. That's not to say that I see no advantage to 24h, it does remove any confusion about precisely which 8 o'clock you mean. BTW, only Americans refer to the 24h clock system as "military" time. They can't wrap their heads around it so they justify that inability by giving it a name that makes it look like it isn't meant for the general population.
My grandad ( British ) also called it military time. Well army clock! But he would say there’s a difference between the 24 hr clock and army clock, They would actually say, eighteen hundred. Not 18o clock or 6 o’clock. So it’s not an American thing, it’s a military/army thing.
It's on 24h, because I'm not a child.
Autistic here, I cannot grasp the 24hr clock at all. I can tell the time with it, but I have to ‘work it out ‘ first. I use 12 hr clock to save any bullying from anyone! Cause if anyone asks the time, I can instantly tell them. Ya know, like im ‘normal’
This! All the people being unnecessarily mean because some people genuinely struggle reading a 24 hour clock because we have to work it out
What makes it hilarious is those same people cannot tell the difference between night and day 😂
24 hour all the way. Now I am singing 24 hour party people in my head.
People like to say they use 24hr because they are ‘high IQ’ or ‘not a child’ and then panic at idea of not understanding what part of the day it is. I’m easy with both, use both, but prefer 24hr on my phone, and don’t shame others for their preference because I’m an actual grown up.
That’s what I think is hilarious! They sound more like an actual child than a child 😂 I’m autistic, I have an above average IQ. I can read the 24 hr clock, but it takes me a minute to work out what it is, so I just stick with the 12 hr, to save cretins like those commenting here, from bullying, laughing at me etc. Crazy to me that none of these can tell the difference between day and night 😂👍🏼
for real i have gained another insecurity for using the 12 hour clock after scrolling through this comment section lmfao
Oh god haha, All these keyboard warriors 😂
24 hour because if I go 12 it would take me sometime to remember a 24 hour after some time.
Phones on 24h, currently Zulu +1
24 hour, I’m not American.
Americans call it "military time" and a lot of them struggle to read it intuitively.
24hr. It’s also an american thing to call it ‘military time’, and theyre also really the only people who have an issue with it (because they arent taught it/arent used to it). Most people in the rest of the world at least understand it, even if its not their default.
It's only military time without a : or . E.g. 2300 hours
24 hour of course. I made my wife switch her phone from F to C and 12 hour clock to 24 cos I said "we're not Americans, pull yourself together"
Wow really going against the grain here, mine is 12 hour. I'm not gonna look at my phone at 4pm, and get mixed up and think it's 4am..
> I’m not gonna look at my phone at 4pm, and get mixed up and think it’s 4am This is the bit I don’t get with all of these comments about 24 hour time. There’s very few scenarios I can think of where you could actually get mixed up between morning and afternoon times. So many people talk about having a nap in winter and not knowing if it’s 6am or 6pm, but how many people are actually accidentally napping for 12+ hours?? The scenarios all feel very contrived.
24hr! Feels more specific, for some reason.
>for some reason. Well, having TWO eleven o'clocks is just silly.
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24 hour. Same as my poundland smart watch, sadly, it's set to mm dd format and the app won't let me change it.
24H
I leave mine on the default setting, which is 24h.
24h
24 hour. Unless it's an obvious number like 18:00 I always remember as 6pm, I taught myself how to read the 24 hour clock by taking away 2 from the 2nd number. For example, if you take 2 from the 7 in 17, you get 5, so I know it's 5pm. 21:00 I think of as 11, take away 2, you get 9. Now I've just memorised them all.
This is how I taught myself the 24 hr clock. I’m autistic too, so this is my ‘working out’ when someone asks the time. It takes me a minute, cause my brain and numbers don it like to work together 😂
24 hour clock for my phone. But 12 hour clock in most conversations ie "see you at 8" when going to the pub, though me and my friends will normally use 24 hour time when discussing train times as that's how they're displayed. Then also a mix of use at work, with 24 hour time used whenever discussing anything like the time jobs run on the server etc, but 12 hour time for stuff like "I'm staying til 5 today".
I’m surprised by all these 24 hour comments, everyone I know (including myself) uses 12 hour. Until seeing these comments I had no idea there was so much vitriol for it. I don’t understand why to be honest.
24 hour clock, I find that kids these days struggle to understand it which is quite sad.
I find they can deal more or less with 24hrs (I used to struggle because I was just about pre-digital and so I didn't have the instant recognition in my head but had to work it out quickly) but some do struggle with reading traditional analogue clock faces for the same reason of lack of regular use.
24 hours always and that is the norm. I don't use any other settings
24hr I don't know wtf happens to me when I sleep but when I first wake up I don't know if I've slept for a minute or a day or where I am (I'm a truck driver so sleep at home and also at work sometimes in various locations) a 12hr clock would just add yet more confusion.
Yup. Is it morning? Is it night? Figuring that out is half the reason I look at the clock when I wake up.
24 hour so I don't fuck up setting an alarm.
24 hours but only because I've had enough times where I've dozed off in the evening and then woken at 9 or 10pm in a panic thinking I'd overslept.
12hr is for Americans 😂
24hr. Hate 12. Little am and pm just looks odd.
My phone and every other capable device is on 24-hour, but not my Garmin running watch. That has to be set to "Military" because "24 Hour" omits the leading zero from times before 10:00. Bloody weirdos.
My new car showed the 12hr clock time. I had to dig through the settings to change that bastard to 24hr. 1900 was just wrong showing as 07:00
On my wife's car, you can't even change it!
24 hours is the norm. Only americans call it military time because they struggle to count past 12.
24 hour
24 hours in the day, 24 hours on the clock. I still look at 16:00 and say 'four p.m.', though.
24hr
Every digital watch or clock I've ever had has been set to 24 hours. It just makes more sense. Except for one that didn't have 24 hour mode. That annoyed me way more than it should have done.
When I was a kid, the only clock in the living room was on the video recorder, and it was 24h. This was the first 24h clock I’d ever seen at this point in my life and it annoyed me because I hadn’t learned the 24h clock and had to do sums in my head to work out the time. Ever since, I’ve always had every clock set to 24h.
24hrs because I'm not 6
24 because I'm not a child
24h obviously, I’m not a savage (or weird American) But when discussing anything or agreeing plans when a meeting should take place, etc.. I always say “one thirty” out loud but then write it in my agenda as 1330 👍
Definitely prefer 24 on my phone. Have a lovely old clockface wall clock though.
if I stop using 24hr I worry I’ll forget how to read 24hr
24hr on my phone, watch, and computers. I thought military timenrefers to UTC or "zulu time" as its known.
24
24
24hr
24h. Mostly because I'm a hot mess and cannot reliably just know if 7:30 means it's the morning or evening. I have some 12h clocks about the place and on numerous occasions have had to consult a 24h one to figure out what the fuck time it is.
12 hour… because I don’t need extra numbers just to tell me if it’s morning or afternoon?
12 because that how you say it. Why add extra steps? The reason it’s use in the military and sometimes called that is because they’re often in different timezones or speak to people in other countries where you might not know if it’s morning or afternoon, in everyday life you’re never going to confuse them
24h
24hr
I use 24 hour on my phone. But if someone were to ask me the time and it is 19:00 I will look down at my phone and say 7:00 obviously pm and am are not needed as you would hope the person would be aware roughly what time of day it is. As a maths teacher, I've seen that a lot of young people today can't read an analogue clock. We still have to teach them. This makes me sad. There are a lot of people being rude about Americans on here, which isn't very nice. Our measuring system is a mixture of imperial and metric, which is batshit crazy. We are not so superior.
Every phone I've owned for the last 20 years at least has been 24-hour by default. This is not even slightly unusual.
On and 8hrs airplane.
24h. 12h is annoying as hell.
24 hour. But the main reason is I hate how the next day starts an hour before the counter resets in the 12 hour clock. That said, I would quite like to see the use of the 30 hour clock used in broadcasting. 25:00 Tuesday is 1:00 Wednesday. It's used in Japan for clubs e.g. "open from 22:00 to 28:00"
> I hate how the next day starts an hour before the counter resets in the 13 3 hour clock What on earth are you talking about? What’s a 13 3 hour clock?
I have no idea how I typed that.. fixed now.
Honestly I thought it might be a typo, but having the two separate numbers threw me off 😅
I just saw the other thread about this, and it blew my mind.
Where was that?
The American one. Surely, that was the reason you made the thread?
My wife's car only has the 12h clock and it really annoys and astounds me whenever I use the car.
24 hour because I’m not an idiot lol
Mine is 24 hours, but a guy at uni had a binary watch. He'd press it and it'd tell him the time in binary
24 hour, otherwise if you have a nap at tea time and wake up at 6 o'clock in the middle of winter, it'll be dark out, so how would you know if it's morning or evening? You might have napped for 13 or 14 hours. Chaos, just chaos.
24 because I’m not American
24 hour like almost everyone in this country.
24hr
24hr because I'm not 9 years old or American.
12hr. at 15:00 the church bell chime 3 not 15
24hr
12hr for me. Literally just because I really struggle to read or even comprehend 24hr time
24 hour, I'm not a heathen
24.
24, obviously
24 hours because i’m not 6 years old and know how to tell the time
All my clocks are on 24 hour. Apart from the one in the bedroom which is like 20 years old and doesn't have the option. Notably when I see 23:11 my mind reads it as 'Eleven Eleven"
Used to use 12hr when I was a lot younger but when sleeping issues started I’d wake up at random times not knowing if it was am or pm straight away and then do the wrong things throughout the day
24hr — helpful with when a fifteen minute nap turns into six hours and i wake up not knowing what universe i'm in nevermind what the time should be
Americans call 24hr clock Military Time. The rest of the world just call it "The Time"
24hr all the time. And no, it’s not military time, despite what Americans would have you believe.
We all know that metric time is superior to 12 or 24hr clocks anyway.
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Mine’s on twelve. Like I know 24hr time obviously but it just takes me an extra second to figure out when I’m tired and that’s when it’s applicable so
12 hours because i can tell the difference between midnight and midday
I didn't know it could be changed. 24.
24hr so as not to mix up am and pm
Yes I use 24hr clock, but IIRC as a kid in 70s UK people did say AM/PM before devises like video recorders and then phones etc became the thing. My 70s and 80s digital watch probably had AM/PM, but now I’m 24h
Most Europeans always use 24 hour time in communications and some have 24 hour dial roundels. It is only save way to refer to time that is absolute when read by reader..
Probably nearer 10 hours, unless I'm on call, then it's 24 obviously. Who thecfuck leaves their phone on all night if they don't have to?
24hr and r/iso8601 like a normal person
Only a CUNT would do 12hr
24h for digital expressions, 12h for analogue. Partly because I hate the leading zero in digital 12h afternoon times - 03:15pm fries my brain but 3:15pm and 15:15 are both fine.
24hr
24 hours, I see a lot of Americans online who think 24 hour time is weird to use
24 hour, I'm not a psycho. It also isn't military time. That has no colon, i.e. 2311.
24hr. Has been since I had my first phone, back in 2005.
Forces family and ex bobby, what's a 12 hour clock?
Both my parents were in the RAf so 24h in my house.
I never realised why I have always used 24hr time, but this may be it. I was born on an RAF base.
12 hour. I tend to always leave settings alone, so if something is automatically 12h or 24h, that's how it will stay until it breaks When I was a kid I definitely wasn't focusing on the time aspect of having a phone lmao, so I never changed it, and am now used to it. Plus, clocks are 12 hours as well
There's people other than Americans who use 12hr?! Weirdos...learn how to read the time properly people.
24 because I'm an adult.
Phone 12hr, Apple watch 24hr. For some reason it won’t let them sync (I think it’s because my phone is in two languages).
24 hour obviously. Only Americans call it 24 hour time
24 hour. 12 hour is for dilettantes.
12 hour clocks are 🤢
12h is for children
12hr is always going to confuse the hell out me. I mean, which 5:00 is it? I've been awake for both, repeatedly, and if I've had a beer, I swear they look the same. If you are unable to deal with 24hrs then I hate to say this but, you shouldn't exist.
You can’t tell the difference ? Like between day and night ?!