Post #1447511
2026-04-13 07:01 UTC
In the UK we all (generally) read 24 hour but speak in 12 hour. So we see 15:00 but say 3. Only military peeps talk on 24, and it can sound weird, but people can easily understand them as long as they can parse the who “-hundred” thing (15:00 being fifteen-hundred)
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@kamen@lemmy.world 2026-04-13 09:29
Bulgarian here, same here. 24 hour removes the ambiguity in written form without the need for a suffix, 12 hour is shorter in speech and 99% of the time it doesn’t need specifying because the AM/PM is evident from the context.
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@Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-13 07:47
In Denmark it’s always written in 24hr, but I’d say it’s 50/50 whether we say 3 or 15 for 15:00. I guess saying 3 is more casual. But we never use “hundred”. 15:30 would just be fifteen-thirty.