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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    I always prefer 24 uhr ;) format and usually set my devices to it, but I feel it is too formal to tell a friend, “hey, I will call you at 1700 hours”

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      Yeah, I’ve had a couple of Americans ask me why I use “military time”, which was confusing at first. But at least in German it’s totally normal.

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      For me, it depends. 1700 Hours is definitely weird and military in my experience. But 17:00 isn’t. The difference is how you write and say it. The first reads as 17 hundred hours, while the other is 17 o’clock.

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      24 uhr

      That’s actually not a thing. It goes from 23:59 to 00:00

      And when you’d say it it would be “23 Uhr 59” to “0 Uhr”.