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How do people in Germany or any other 24 hour format country tell the time? (lemmy.ml)
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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If you really want to have fun with spoken German time formats, you have to get into the quarters though.

For example:

8:15 / 20:15 can be said as Viertel nach Acht (quarter past eight) or Viertel Neun (quarter nine)

8:45 / 20:45 can be said as Viertel vor Neun (quarter before nine) or Dreiviertel Neun (three quarters nine)

And I think the difference in those is regional, so those are actually more "controversial" then using 12 or 24h formats.

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