Why is it that Americans refer to 24 hour time as military time? I understand that the military uses the 24hr format but I don’t understand why the general public would refer to it like that?
It makes it seem like it’s a foreign concept where as in a lot of countries it’s the norm.
Because the average American is much more likely to bump into American military personnel than people from countries that use 24 hour time. It’s really as simple as that.
And this isn’t because we’re uncultured swine, it’s because we’re separated by two oceans from most countries.
not mutually exclusive
Australia has entered the chat
Australia isn’t real.
Paradise, Heaven, Eden, Australia, whatever it is.
It’s a penal colony…
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Which is a few countries south of the US and connected to NA by a nearly impassible forest and no roads… Might as well be another ocean.
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The entire US logistics chain runs on 24 hour time, even the 100% domestic aspects.
The logistics chain would also save tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue every year if we ended daylight savings time and time zones, and collectively is one of the biggest lobbies for those changes