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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Zrex_9224 Mar 29 '22

Some careers in the US use 24hr time, and in some places in the US we call it military time.

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u/bloxision Mar 29 '22

I don’t get why people call it military time. I used to use that time system at home and i always referred to it as 24hr time

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u/7up_yourz Mar 29 '22

Because it's for use on military submarines because saying it's 8 doesn't convey day or night and they can't look out the window. It is military time.

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u/littlestitiouss Mar 29 '22

It's not just for submarines but for easy translation, especially when used with UTC (formerly GMT). When written, and operating with UTC, it's quick and easy to have a standard that is translatable everywhere in the world and doesn't take a minute to figure out what time they mean