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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    1 year ago

    It depends. You might say something like “I’ve got a meeting from 12 to 14”, which is perfectly natural. But also a lot of the time you might just say “I go to bed at 9” because the context makes it obvious that you mean 9 in the evening. Most people don’t go to bed in the morning. Unless you do, but then you would probably give context “I’m going to bed at 9 in the morning, because I work nights”, for example.