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How do people in Germany or any other 24 hour format country tell the time? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by Subject6051@lemmy.ml to c/shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I mean, do they say "I sleep at 9pm" or more like "I sleep at 2100 hrs" even while they are talking informally? 2100 hrs sounds very formal to me, but yeah, I was just wondering if they used 24 hour format for only official and government proceedings and used 12 hour format for casual stuff.

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[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Depends. Some people will say "21 Uhr", some people will say "9 Uhr", one isn't more formal than the other.

Of course with the 12h format you always need additional context to know if you mean in the moring or in the evening, since we don't use "am/pm".

[–] Subject6051@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I always prefer 24 uhr ;) format and usually set my devices to it, but I feel it is too formal to tell a friend, "hey, I will call you at 1700 hours"

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I've had a couple of Americans ask me why I use "military time", which was confusing at first. But at least in German it's totally normal.

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

For me, it depends. 1700 Hours is definitely weird and military in my experience. But 17:00 isn't. The difference is how you write and say it. The first reads as 17 hundred hours, while the other is 17 o'clock.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

24 uhr

That's actually not a thing. It goes from 23:59 to 00:00

And when you'd say it it would be "23 Uhr 59" to "0 Uhr".

[–] Subject6051@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I meant to say 24 hour format there