Why is it that Americans refer to 24 hour time as military time? I understand that the military uses the 24hr format but I don’t understand why the general public would refer to it like that?
It makes it seem like it’s a foreign concept where as in a lot of countries it’s the norm.
They say fourteen hundred or 2 o’clock. I’ve never really heard anyone say 14 o’clock.
In both Polish and German people say fourteen o’clock.
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking
thirteenfourteen”