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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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[–] [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