Comment on Military Time vs 24hr?

• aeno@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m german. if it’s completely unambiguous, we simply say “dinner is at 6” or “my shift ends at 4”. but when you want to make sure that there’s no room for confusion we say “let’s meet at 21 o’clock”.

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• howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In French, it’s pretty common to say 14 o’clock.

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  • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    La fête est à quatorze heures.

    Which is French for “I expect you’ll show up some time between 15:00 and 19:00.”

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• gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m Dutch. Usually we just say something like “2 in the afternoon” instead of 14:00 or 2 PM. But digital clocks and writing etc will use 24 hours. Every now and then people will use it though, saying 14:30 as “fourteen hours thirty”, but that’s quite rare and sounds a bit formal (or goofy).

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In France, people commonly use the 24h format. Any time given in a formal setting (given on TV, opening hours for a business, etc.) will be in 24h format. Some people still use 12h though.

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• Alimentar@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They say fourteen hundred or 2 o’clock. I’ve never really heard anyone say 14 o’clock.

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  • Player2@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We definitely just called it 14 where I grew up

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    • Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We called it 14 in Alabama. You’re talking about age of censent, right?

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  • sznowicki@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In both Polish and German people say fourteen o’clock.

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  • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen fourteen”

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• ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Denmark we say “2 o’clock” or just “14”. No one says fourteen hundred, except perhaps for a few military wannabes. Likewise, no one says “14 o’clock”.

  If it’s quarter past 2, we’d usually say “14-15”. Half past 2 would be “14-30”, you get the idea.

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  • code@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same in Norway, unsurprisingly, but we do say 14 0 0 (fjorten null null) if making it clear that we mean 1400 exact. Otherwise like you said, klokken 14 or klokken 2.

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• lud@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In my country younger individuals like me use the 24 hour system a lot verbally. Older generations from before smartphones (which always use 24 hour) uses the 12 hour system more.

  But in general I would argue that people use the 24 hour system when talking about something which needs precision, like when the train arrives. And the 12 hour system when talking about something like when to meet a friend (it’s still very important to arrive on time though, regardless of how imprecise the time was, “about five” means five.)

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• Chetzemoka@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a nurse who uses 24-hr time at work and it’s about 50/50 with me saying “fourteen hundred” or “2pm” when speaking. I generally find that my colleagues understand both and use both interchangeably.

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• MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I basically always write the time as a four-figure number, and verbally refer to 1400 as “two o’clock”, “two in the afternoon” etc. in English but “viertien uur” or “twee uur” in Dutch.

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• YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1400 (fourteen hundred)

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