Do you automatically know how to convert the time to military hours?

[GoldenHours]

At work we always have to refer to military time/a 24 hour clock. I often see people having to count with their fingers to what the time is (e.g. counting that 8pm is 20:00). Similarly, with months I see people having to count with their fingers what number month it is when writing the date (e.g. counting to see that August is the 8th month).

Do you know the time in 24 hours and the number of the months off-by-heart or do you have to count it?

Military time is 1pm = 'thirteen hundred hours', no?

Of course. All adults should be able to do this without even thinking about it.

No probs. I can't do weeks though. 31 weeks pregnant means nothing to me.

I do. Same as I know the phonetic alphabet by heart

Yes I know both no issues.

I have never encountered an adult that had to count to work out hours / months as you described.

The 24 hour clock is taught in KS2 in primary school. I have always known it and all clocks in this house and my watch are set to 24 hour clock if possible.

Military time I assume is the oh nine hundred bit but yes that is easy too as I just know what the numbers mean.

I’m so confused, I thought everyone knew the 24 hour clock, as in learnt it at school.

I think military hours., 21 hundred hours or whatever, is proper cringe.

But I know the 24 hour clock and the months and stuff. 22.53pm, time for my bed.

I’ve only known that way!? To be honest I was never taught how to read a clock with “hands” only learnt digital

I know it, I thought everyone did 😬

Can't remember when I didn't know the 24-hour clock, though I'm guessing it really kicked in when I used trains more - university. As for the months, since childhood, but then I'm 66.

Maybe it was one those things taught at primary back then, like calculating compound interest, and binary numbers.

Prefer the 24 hour clock.

Do you work with Americans @GoldenHours ?

They don't use the 24 hr clock and refer to it as military time. In the UK I think it's just normal

We teach Y4 children to convert between 12 and 24hr times (national curriculum). I've never heard it called military, so wouldn't expect an 8/9 year old to know the term, however.
I learnt the 24 hr clock using the Thomas Cook timetable Interrailing round Europe in the early 1980s.

Yeah the 24hr clock is second nature to me. My phone/laptop is set that way. I can't remember not knowing it.

Yep, can work out time zones too eg Ny +5

Yes. My phone, oven and microwave all show the 24hr clock and I have no problems reading the analogue clock in my kitchen!

I also know the months and the phonetic alphabet. I have never used the phonetic alphabet in my life but spent a weird three months drilling it into someone I was having a fling with as he was about to become an ambulance dispatcher 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is a massive issue where I work - in a secondary school! Lots of pupils do not have a clue 🙈

I keep my digital clocks on 24 hour time format, so no problem.

It's interesting to read literature from before the 24 hour clock was in common usage. The opening to 1984 with the clocks striking 13 is based on this - but of course, in the real 1984 (and, indeed, now) we retained analogue clocks on the 12 hour format, so striking 13 doesn't happen.

In children's literature, the Chalet School books have British children baffled by references to 'thirteen hundred hours' etc. which again, seems strange to readers who grew up in the era of digital clocks.

I know both military time and months without having to think about it.

I didn't know it was called military hours but yes I know 24 hour clock and months as a number off by heart . That's how I would automatically write anything if I have to put date / time at work .

It just becomes automatic after a while. The aviation industry works in the 24h clock and in Co-ordinated Universal Time, or UTC, which is also known as Zulu time.

The current time as I write this in the U.K. is 21:59Z or 10:59 local. If I were in New York, the time would still be 21:59Z, but it would be 5:59 local.

Know it by heart and we use military time too.

Just add 12 it’s simple.

The months absolutely yes I know them.

@Thatsplentyjack

Of course. All adults should be able to do this without even thinking about it.

what even those with dyslexia?

Of course. All adults should be able to do this without even thinking about it.

Why ?
There must be loads of things I've 'learned' at some point in my life, but if you don't ever use them, why would they be instant recall ?
There is no 'should' about it. People have different headspace and most of us prioritise things we use over things we don't.