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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    15 hours ago

    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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      10 hours ago

      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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        7 hours ago

        Can’t count past 12 but somehow fine with AM and PM even tho they are too confusing?

        Also breaking up an hour into 15 minute increments does indeed happen.

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      14 hours ago

      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.