Military grade is defined as the lowest quality required to be used by the military, often resulting in the cheapest product that is still suitable for military use.
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The US military also uses loads of metric things. "Real Americans" won't touch those, either. Apart from 9mm guns and ammo.
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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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I've used it since I was 12 🤷
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Something that's been growing on me, but that I'm still unsure of, is 24-hour time that goes beyond 24 to reference the next day. I was in Japan recently, and there were many restaurants that would write their opening hours as, for example, 18:00 - 25:30, to represent that they are open until 01:30 the next day. Was confusing at first, but makes maths easier and means that intervals of time never count backwards! From memory, OpenStreetMap use this system, too.
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American consumers will buy anything. Why hasn't anyone developed a military clock for proud American households?
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Don't forget the klick. Most of them are not buying that either.
The people in all the countries that have no problem counting off another dozen past twelve don't always do that though. If you meet your friend at 15:00 most people will revert to "at 3" in their language. And they might "go to bed at 11." Economy of language and context clues. So colloquially the am/pm crowd and the 24h folks aren't far apart at all.
And any person claiming that it's too difficult to add or subtract twelve from at maximum a low two-digit integer ought to have their passport revoked.
I believe its roots have more to do with the railways than with the military. I have never called it military time to be honest.
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12-hour would only be somewhat decent if there wasn't noon/midnight confusion.
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I find the 12-hour practical for daily life. But I put my phone on 24 hour time when I’m traveling and find that to be helpful.
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Am American, use 24 hour time. It's only called military time here.
I'm American, but a software engineer, 24 hour clock for me! Totally understand I'm an outlier.
I be taking naps on accident like once a week. I need to know if I'm waking up at 8am or 8pm
Only an American would think that the 24-hour clock has anything to do with the military in the first place.
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why are 24 hours military grade?
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Psst, confused American, let me give you a secret: Nobody uses the 24-hour clock in speech, we.just write with that and call 13:00 "1 PM" or something like that in our local language.
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I'm not american and I too prefer the 12 hour clock. 24 hour clock has never been intuitive for me. I always have to put in brain power to convert it in my head.
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