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.
Mil - seventeen-hundred Civ - seventeen-o’clock
As a civilian who uses the 24h system, I say “five o’clock”, but write “1700”