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How do you pronounce "16:00"? 16 o'clock?

• ceejayoz 15y ago
  "Sixteen hundred hours".
• Osiris 15y ago
  I've always heard it like "16 hundred hours", though I admit that it might be hard for some people to adjust. I'll usually say something like "Does eleven work for you?", meaning 11am. Since the US is -5 to -8 UTC, it would be something like 16 hundred hours for an 11am meeting, so "Does sixteen work for you?" or "Does sixteen hundred hours.." sounds a little odd.
  • ricardobeat 15y ago
    "sixteen hundred" is how they say it in the US military. Living in a country that uses the 24h system, you just say "four" or "4 o'clock", the time of day is understood from context 90% of the time. The other 10% you just add "in the morning" or "in the afternoon", or "16 hours".
• PerryCox 15y ago
  16 Hundred.