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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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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