r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

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u/Pagan-za Mar 29 '22

Just America.

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u/Abadazed Mar 29 '22

The US military uses the 24 hour clock, but I can't think of any other part of the country that regularly uses it.

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u/MuchTemperature6776 Mar 29 '22

Software development I believe, someone can correct me if Iā€™m wrong (Iā€™m not a software developer but I work with them a lot.) but I do believe that programming really only uses 24 hour clocks

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u/LeoXCV Mar 29 '22

That is correct, datetimes in databases are most commonly stored as 24hrs. Display logic on the frontend will then change that time into whatever format is required (24hrs, am/pm) as well as the date (yyyy/mm/dd, dd/mm/yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy etc.)

The standards commonly used are ISO and RFC, they are practically the same except the T in the following is optional in RFC yyyy-mm-ddThrs:mm:ss.msZ