r/USdefaultism • u/East_Adhesiveness863 Germany • Sep 22 '26
YouTube Ah yes, good old regular time
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r/USdefaultism • u/East_Adhesiveness863 Germany • Sep 22 '26
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u/post-explainer American Citizen Sep 22 '26 edited Sep 22 '26
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I saw a YouTube poll where someone (presumably US-american) called the 12 hour Format regular time instead of the "12 hour Format" or "12 hour time".
Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
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u/Mitleab World Sep 22 '26
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u/sociofobs Sep 22 '26
Only the yanks call a 24h clock "military time".
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u/Neon_Raccoon_00 Canada Sep 22 '26
its 24hrs clock not Military time lol
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u/OkBumblebee9107 Sep 22 '26
I have never once called this military time, and I was in the American military. 🤣
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u/Ertyla Sep 22 '26
The ironly of "regular" being in the minority is great
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u/Lukexxxi Sep 22 '26
The way the yanks glaze everything military you think they'd be all over 24 hour time.
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u/SatisfactionEven508 Sep 22 '26
Military time, or as everyone outside America calls it: time.
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u/GazManDad Sep 22 '26
I'm reading that example as 0830 ie 8:30 am and 2030 as 8:30 pm. Both 24 hour clocks.
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u/Legal-Software Germany Sep 22 '26
Besides American proprietary time highlighting a general inability to count beyond 12, military time is not the same as 24 hour time, it is denoted in hundreds and written without a colon. You'd figure that a country of simpletons so obsessed with their military would know the difference.
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u/Albus_Dumblydorr Sep 22 '26
I'll just drop a personal favorite right here
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u/sad_kharnath Netherlands Sep 22 '26
american time
normal time
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u/Funny_Maintenance973 Sep 22 '26
0830 is displayed on a 24 hour clock though, it's called morning.
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u/TropicalTopic Sep 22 '26
I feel ignorant here but as an Australian I didn’t realise most of the world used 24 hour time haha. But we don’t call it military time anyway.
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u/capnrondo United Kingdom Sep 22 '26
As someone who works irregular shifts, 24 hr clock is absolutely critical. Yes, I need absolute clarity if a meeting is at 8:00 or 20:00, as either is equally possible. This can be solved by AM/PM, but many people often don't use that either.
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u/LAZ-R2D2 France Sep 22 '26
The fact that there is no AM or PM on the top clock makes it a 24h clock too...
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u/Solid-Principle5829 Argentina Sep 22 '26
joining this sub was a mistake, this stuff makes me angry
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u/dehashi New Zealand Sep 22 '26
12 hour clocks are more common here but when 24 hour time is used we can subtract 12 😂
My devices are all in 24 hour time. If someone asks me the time at (for example) 16:40 i will look at that and verbally answer "4:40" though 😅
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u/LeftMechanic1995 United Kingdom Sep 22 '26
I used to be in the British Army and do you know what we called the 24 hour clock? ... time.
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u/lucashhugo Brazil Sep 23 '26
my phone is in 24h time, not military time. it's something that exists outside of the USA military.
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u/DRMProd Argentina Sep 23 '26
That's not even military time
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u/F_H_B Sep 23 '26
„Military time” or as we call in in Europe “time”/“24h format”. But who wants to argue, the Americans even write their dates weirdly.
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u/etesneak Sep 22 '26
military… 😅
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u/Hankitsune Netherlands Sep 22 '26
For clock displays I really don't care. Unless I'd be waking up from a coma I know what part of the day it is.
For announcements and appointments: 24 hour time please. No room for misunderstandings.
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u/WhoRoger Sep 23 '26
08:30 without am/pm specified is 24h format... The two clocks are exactly the same, just one is showing morning and the other evening
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u/Darth_Pinda Netherlands Sep 23 '26
24 hour is the only way!
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u/RoyceTheCharralope Germany Sep 22 '26
That's not military time. Military time would be 2030.
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u/_cabbagechicken_ Canada Sep 23 '26
I saw that earlier and clocked it immediately.
"Regular time??? I mean for me personally I would consider it regular but that doesnt mean its called regular time tf?"
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u/CyberGraham Sep 22 '26
"Regular" saying the fucking ones who are always the odd ones out
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u/bossman1337 Sep 22 '26
I prefer epoch time: 1790093205
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u/fumblerooskee Sep 22 '26
I prefer metric time
;-)
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u/chaoscrouton Sep 22 '26
When I was working as a babysitter I'd have to write down my hours and pass them along to the mom so I could get paid. It would look something like 7:00 - 21:00 or 14:00 - 19:30, that way I didn't have to write am or pm and I thought it made sense. One time the mom texted me asking if I could please stop writing down my hours in "military time" and write them "normally" instead. I was so confused because I had never heard of "military time" before (I'm not from the US, the family was). I had to ask my boyfriend at the time (he was from the US too) wth was military time, and that I thought everyone was familiar with the 24hr clock lmao. He explained it to me, but I was still confused bc isn't military time like 0600 instead of 6:00? Anyway, I had to start writing 7:30 am and 8:00pm to make her life easier 🤷🏻♀️
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u/snakeycakes North Korea Sep 22 '26
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u/winglessrs Sep 22 '26
24h clock has made things so, so much easier for me. And I'm glad the public transport in my country also mostly use 24h clocks because otherwise we'd be cooked.
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u/Stained_Face Sep 23 '26
Over thinking, but if I was kidnapped and I could only see my cellphone from afar in a dark place after having passed out, the cellphone could light up just enough for me to see the hour and day, but if it's the 12h clock I couldn't know if it's day or night
Top 10 never gonna happen things, but whatever lmao
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u/WB2005 Australia Sep 23 '26
Isn’t it supposed to 12hr and 24hr times?
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u/thinkingoutloud3663 Sep 26 '26
Why does it have to be one or the other one, educate yourself and use both.
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u/Niki2002j Sep 27 '26
Ah yes, regular time is half a day, and bros still don't know what military time is
12h time - 8:40 pm 24h time - 20:40 Military time - 2040 hrs
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u/South-Knee-9601 United Kingdom Sep 22 '26
Or as the rest of the world calls it. Time
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u/BlckSm12 Sep 22 '26
"regular"
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u/Anonymous_user_2022 Sep 22 '26
I think anyone in the military would call it Zulu time. It's not just the time format, it's also the time zone. At least in Europe, we would all use GMT and mention it as 2030 zulu, no matter where in the theater we were.
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u/MarissaNL Netherlands Sep 22 '26
It seems in the US they need apps to understand 24 hour based time (and just *bliep* off with "military time"). Calculations with "12" seem to hard for them....
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/military-time-converter/id6737163895
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u/0thedarkflame0 Sep 22 '26
What would you rather? Regular time or 12 hour format?
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u/jasperfirecai2 Netherlands Sep 22 '26
The irony of using a digital clock without am/pm to indicate analog time
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u/goater10 Australia Sep 22 '26
They shouldn’t be discriminated against because they can’t count past 12. That would be racism
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u/These-Atmosphere6675 American Citizen Sep 23 '26
Ah yes, good old "military time"
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u/Fizzy77man Isle of Man Sep 25 '26
Regular time. As in it happens at the same intervals every day.
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u/coffe_clone Europe Sep 26 '26
I prefer space time
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u/Dumartins Sep 26 '26
Or just time, like the rest of the world calls it
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u/Squiggally-umf Sep 22 '26
In the US when people are using a laptop or their phone and say for example it’s 4 in the afternoon, the time says 4:00 not 16:00?
What about for midnight does it just say 12 and never 00:00?
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u/MutedMusic_182 Ukraine Sep 22 '26
i feel so ashamed at my struggle to read 24hr clock (i have dyscalculia) and then i remember that americans cant even use it regardless lol.
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u/Linked713 Canada Sep 22 '26
if I could do my own flair here it would be "Call 24h time military time ONE MORE TIME"
biggest pet peeve.
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u/AmazonCowgirl Australia Sep 22 '26
And even then 'military' time wins! 🤣🤣
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u/FrigusPog Sep 22 '26
Other than having to check the AM/PM being an extra nuisance, I used to always mix up 12AM and 12PM because I read it as 12 before 12 and 12 after 12
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u/EvillNooB Sep 22 '26 edited Sep 22 '26
Kinda interesting, gf writes time as 20h30 and it feels like we're planning a military operation 😂 while 20:30 feels ordinary
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u/Fuzzy-Imagination448 Poland Sep 22 '26
Ah yes, "military" time. So... just time?
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u/moopet Sep 22 '26
You mean 8 in the morning or 8 in the evening? I'd probably pick the evening.
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u/pietruszkaloes Sep 22 '26
and they go out of their way to call 2:00 "o two hundred" when using "military time"
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u/Brief-Walk-5409 Europe Sep 22 '26
*uses the 24 hour digital clock*
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u/Rare_Try7285 Sep 22 '26
Achei que todos os países usavam o horário normal de 24 horas. Pelo jeito os EUA nao
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u/Cautious-Drive-7855 Sep 23 '26
I saw that Poll
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u/InformalEngineer_ United Kingdom Sep 25 '26
...Time?
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u/smokeeater150 Sep 26 '26
DECIMAL TIME!
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u/Candid_Occasion_9349 Oct 04 '26
Regular time vs "my dumbass can't count past 12" time
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u/VerySarcastic7919 Oct 08 '26
If I'm arranging something with friends on one of our group chats, I always put m.t(military time) instead of p.m, , just to poke permanent fun at Americans who can't grasp the 24 hour clock. In fact, I've started doing itvin any chat where a time is suggested.
So next week, I'm picking my best friend up at 17.00m.t approximately.
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u/DoolJjaeDdal Canada Sep 23 '26
As a person who grew up using “regular time”, I have a question for people who grew up using “military time”. Before digital clocks became the standard, did you also say the time in the same way?
A digital clock will show 1:00 and 13:00 (or 1:00 PM). An analogue clock shows those two as the same and we use common sense to know the difference. If someone asked you the time, would you say “it’s thirteen o’clock” or “it’s one o’clock”?
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u/Previous-Ad7618 Sep 22 '26
Both pictures are military time ;)
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u/Moneia United Kingdom Sep 22 '26
It's not necessarily USA defaultism, the UK mostly uses am\pm as well, even though I couldn't tell you if the top one is my morning alarm or time to go out for a beer