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