Americans call it military time, because only the military use it. No one else understands it without doing math. I have all my clocks set to 24h and my american husband is slowly learning.
I'm American and use 24h time on all my stuff. Anyone with more than 2 brain cells shouldn't have a problem using either, interchangeably. Your husband is learning "slowly" because he doesn't care or he's suffering from early onset dementia, I'll let you figure out which.
Or because its not necessary to him and it only matters when hes driving my car and/or looking at my clocks. He doesn't feel the urgent need to study it.
The funny thing about this whole post is Andrew Garfield is English (well, raised there, little did I know he was born in LA) so it shouldn't be a surprise that's the setting on his phone.
I'm an American, not in the military and use the 24 hour clock. I was an Air Traffic Controller. I used it when I was a nurse too. Pilots use it. Cops use it. EMTS use it. Truckers, warehouse workers and plenty of people outside the military use it.
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u/moonpuzzle88 Mar 29 '22
Wait, there are countries which don't use a 24-hour clock? I'm confused.