>>>>Even better, come November, we'll have an interesting second (twice):
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>>>Once. Unless you share the common illusion that the day has 12 hours twice. We learn that it has 24 hours.
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>>What do you call 11:11 p.m.? Just like that, military time, something else?
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>Military time is twentyonehundredeleven (2311). Regular time is 23:11, twenty three and eleven. The "and" is optional, but very few skip it. Equally regular is twenty three hours eleven minutes, but it's going out of fashion for length.
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>I don't call it at all. It comes by itself, no need to assign it a name.

Nope. :o) Military time would be 2311 hours twenty-three eleven hours :o) (The hundred is usually only stated when no minutes are included like 1900 = nineteen hundred hours)

However you are correct on the use of the colon. The only time a colon is used in military time is when seconds are included: 2311:23 or 23:11:23

Sometimes, it is more precise (especially during field or multi-national training exercises). For example, if it is 1100 hours Zulu Time, then in New York City it would be 0600 hours (zero six hundred hours but while wrong, it's common to hear oh six hundred) Romeo Time (1100 - 5 = 0600) (juliet is reserved for local observance) (see a Nato chart)

Sometimes they will say UTC but it's not accurate

Right or wrong, there you have it. :o)