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How do people in Germany or any other 24 hour format country tell the time? (lemmy.ml)
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I mean, do they say "I sleep at 9pm" or more like "I sleep at 2100 hrs" even while they are talking informally? 2100 hrs sounds very formal to me, but yeah, I was just wondering if they used 24 hour format for only official and government proceedings and used 12 hour format for casual stuff.

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[–] niels 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know, no one ever says "I sleep at 2100 hrs (twenty-one hundred hours)". We say "I sleep at 9 o'clock" or "at 21 o'clock"). Then of course change o'clock with your lagnuage's equivalent such as "uur" or "Uhr" in Dutch and German for example. Pm or am is almost always derived from context, and if it's not you can add "in the morning/afternoon/evening".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know, no one ever says "I sleep at 2100 hrs (twenty-one hundred hours)".

Germans most definitely do

[–] niels 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow I didn't know that. Is it common? I've never heard it ever outside of the context of American military time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yes it's common. To give you an idea, the biggest news program on public TV uses that format to give a preview of what comes later that evening: https://youtu.be/sAAlQmlmFJU?t=920

google translates "zweiundzwanzig Uhr fünfzehn" to "10:15 pm" but what she says is 22 "hour" 15