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I always look it up on Google. I regularly run into this kind of problem when looking at log files which use AM/PM time. Related question: How do you even say "14:00" in English? In school I learned that you say o'clock but I never heard that in real life.

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Over 12, you generally pronounce it as military time. So you would say "14 hundred hours" I think.

> you generally pronounce it as military time

WTF is 'military time'?

https://militaryconnection.com/military-time/amp/

Errrrm....

That's an ordinary 24 hour clock. Rather bizarre to call it "Military" time.

military time is spoken in hundreds and doesn't use colon, while regular 24hr time is spoken in dozens and use colon

Military 1400 - fourteen hundred 1430 - fourteen hundred thirty

Standard 24h 14:00 - fourteen hours 14:30 - fourteen thirty

But I am not native English speaker and this is only my understanding from what I observed about military time vs 24 hours time and I may be wrong, someone please correct me.

I’ve heard and used “o’clock” my entire life but not with 24 hour time. You could say “fourteen hundred (hours)” or 2 pm/o’clock. For 08:00, “oh 8 hundred hours”.

14:00 -> fourteen hundred hours

14:01 -> fourteen oh one

14:10 -> fourteen ten

etc

"Fourteen hundred"

Fourteen o'clock works too but is less natural.

Indeed, “o’clock” is what you say when you look at a clock face!

not a native speaker here but you could say "Two PM sharp"

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