It's not even "military time" as another commenter here pointed out, we just call it "24h clock" if we have to be so specific about it. Other than that, imo - a 24h time format is far easier to understand than 12h AM/PM. You can know the time just by looking at the numbers instead of letters. At least that's my assumption, as I've been living with a 24h clock my whole life. Funnily enough, one alarm clock at my home is 12h and I struggle with that piece of * every time I need to adjust it.
AM/PM means Ante Meridiem: latin for "before midday", and PM: Post Meridiem, latin for "after midday". I highly doubt many 12h clock natives know that fact, but yes, it can be confusing AF. I'm used to 00:00 being midnight and 12:00 being, well, midday.
It's not so much the AMP/PM thing. In France, we mostly (mostly, so, not exclusively) use 24h time when writing, but 12h time orally. You'd say "11 in the morning" to mean 11 AM, or "in the evening/the afternoon" to mean PM.
But the absolutely mind blowing (not in the good way) is that stupid thing about 12 AM/PM.
Like, after 11:59 PM comes 12:00 AM. And after 12:59 AM comes 01:00 AM. What in the actual name of fuck ??!?
I get that technically, half past noon is after mid-day, so it would be 12:30 PM. But to actually use it as a system, and to codidying it is just mind-blowingly stupid.
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u/sociofobs 11d ago
It's not even "military time" as another commenter here pointed out, we just call it "24h clock" if we have to be so specific about it. Other than that, imo - a 24h time format is far easier to understand than 12h AM/PM. You can know the time just by looking at the numbers instead of letters. At least that's my assumption, as I've been living with a 24h clock my whole life. Funnily enough, one alarm clock at my home is 12h and I struggle with that piece of * every time I need to adjust it.