As an American who uses the 24-hour time, so many people use 12-hour I basically still use 12-hour.

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[–] 58 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I call it “computer time” because I’m tired of people I’m talking with thinking its something to do with the military.

“UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?!”

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    When I was a civilian, everyone called it military time, because only the US military used it.

    When I joined the US military, they called it International Time, because the rest of the world used it and we were just meeting international standards so there's no confusion with our global allies.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Its just called time.

    How many hours does it take the earth to spin? 24? Nah lets split it up into 2 12s because our people can't count higher.. And then lets make it have confusing AM PM tags depending on if its one or the other

    Like fuck off you gonna have the 60 mins of the hour also be split into 4 so you dont have to count that high??

    24h clock Is the norm

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