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Re:Ask HN: What does 12:00 AM mean? by dccoolgai on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:35AM (#30801366)
Over 12, you generally pronounce it as military time. So you would say "14 hundred hours" I think.
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Re:Ask HN: What does 12:00 AM mean? by GoodbyeMrChips on Friday March 25, 2022 @09:10AM (#30801693)
> you generally pronounce it as military time

WTF is 'military time'?

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Re:Ask HN: What does 12:00 AM mean? by dccoolgai on Friday March 25, 2022 @09:42AM (#30802058)
https://militaryconnection.com/military-time/amp/
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Re:Ask HN: What does 12:00 AM mean? by GoodbyeMrChips on Friday March 25, 2022 @10:06AM (#30802312)
Errrrm....

That's an ordinary 24 hour clock. Rather bizarre to call it "Military" time.

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Re:Ask HN: What does 12:00 AM mean? by Markoff on Friday March 25, 2022 @12:40PM (#30804293)
military time is spoken in hundreds and doesn't use colon, while regular 24hr time is spoken in dozens and use colon

Military 1400 - fourteen hundred 1430 - fourteen hundred thirty

Standard 24h 14:00 - fourteen hours 14:30 - fourteen thirty

But I am not native English speaker and this is only my understanding from what I observed about military time vs 24 hours time and I may be wrong, someone please correct me.

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