Military time, also known as the 24-hour clock, is a system the military uses to eliminate confusion between morning and afternoon hours, since the armed forces are in operation around the clock. In ...

Most people learn how to read a watch to see what time it is at a young age. They use the same system throughout their lifetimes and wouldn’t think of it as something that could be confusing. That ...

It’s a marvel any of us ever learns to tell time. One “day” of 24 hours divided at noon into two 12-hour chunks — why 24 and 12? And each hour consists of 60 minutes with 60 seconds to a minute — why ...