![]() ![]() The military is an obvious example, but hospitals and emergency services also use the 24-hour timekeeping system.īroadly speaking, it’s mainly the English-speaking countries that use AM and PM to express the time of day. Military time, with its special notation and syntax, is usually only used in certain contexts. Of course, what they’re really doing is using the 24-hour clock, the world’s most widely used time format. That distinction may hold water in the US, but don’t be surprised to see people (civilians, no less) in other countries using “military time” in their everyday life! If you travel to mainland Europe, your train may depart at 15:57 and the TV news may start at 21:00. (Some also use the term standard time, but that can be confusing since that can also denote the opposite of Daylight Saving Time.) ![]() If you grew up in the United States, you may think of the 24-hour clock as military time and the 12-hour clock as regular time or civilian time. Train station in Amsterdam, Netherlands: the train to Den Helder leaves at three minutes to four (15:57). Eleven at night (2300) is “twenty-three hundred hours.”.Ten o’clock in the morning (1000) is “ten hundred hours.”. ![]()
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