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the clock that refuses to say 'excuse me, morning or night?' twice.
means a 24-hour timekeeping format where the day runs from 0000 to 2359 with no am or pm needed.
from militaries and navies adopted it to eliminate deadly ambiguity in coordinated operations across time zones; the US armed forces formalized it during world war one, though europe had been using 24-hour clocks in civilian rail schedules since the 1800s.
zero hundredmidnight is spoken as zero-zero-zero-zero, oh-hundred
noon quirk1200 is noon, not a typo for midnight
global defaultmost of the world calls it just 'time,' not military
pronunciation rule1730 is said seventeen-thirty, never seventeen-thirty pm
for instance
nato time zones — uses letter suffixes like zulu for coordinated global ops
amtrak schedules — us rail long printed arrivals in 24-hour format to cut confusion
hospital charting — us er records use it to prevent am pm medication errors
iso 8601 — the international date-time standard mandates 24-hour notation