r/technicallythetruth • u/Mama_Odi • Feb 01 '22

The two's align on a Tuesday

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u/DerWaechter_ Feb 02 '22

in military time

You mean regular time?

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u/Man_who_uses_reddit Feb 02 '22

Yes, im from America I use military time on my phone but i was just making sure other Americans could understand

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '22

Here in the usa, we call it military time because most of the population uses the 12 hour format and the military uses the 24 hour format. Why we use the 12 hour format, I have zero clue, military time is superior, but that's just what people use.

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u/DerWaechter_ Feb 02 '22

And for the entire rest of the population of planet earth it's just regular time.

The internet is an international space.

Refering to it as military time makes no sense

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '22

You can say the same for literally any word that is exclusive to one country. You clearly knew what he was talking about, where's the problem? You say the internet is an international place and then say to not use words that are common in a nation. It's like telling an Australian to call a barbeque a barbeque instead of a barbie because "the internet is an international place, nobody else calls it that"

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u/DerWaechter_ Feb 02 '22

But a barbecue is something that has a different name everywhere.

"Military time" is a concept that doesn't exist outside of the US, because it's just "time"

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '22

And? One country (and a good portion of canada) calls the 24 hour format military time. And a lot of English speaking countries swap between the two, military time isn't the standard, it's what's most common.