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.

  • @nicknoxx@feddit.uk
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    42 years ago

    Er, not sure if I understand you but In Greenwich we use GMT in winter and BST in summer so GMT doesn’t change.

    • @jucelc@lemmy.wtf
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      12 years ago

      But in Europe we don’t say German Mean Time or Spanish Mean Time when changing to summer time. We increment GMT+1. So it becomes GMT+2. Then we revert back to GMT+1 in winter.