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But 14:00 is what the time is and what the clock shows, not 1400. So I would say 14 o'clock if not 2 o'clock. Would you say "it's nine hundred in the morning" too? Again, it's hours not hundreds. I'm sorry but I don't understand why you're talking about years.
For context my country uses 24h time and I grew up with it.
It is objectively wrong to say 14 o'clock, because "o'clock" refers to the orientation of an analogue clock.
Saying "it's nine in the morning" is redundant in a 24 hour system, because nine would never be anything other than that.
To say 'it's nine hundred" reduces the ambiguity slightly (because you can't really say o'clock).
If you simply say "it's nine" then other people might ask "what's nine?"
Is it "nine past nine"? Or are you telling me "no" in German?
Nine hundred is pretty clear, but not to our primitive ears