Originally Posted by
PAX_fips
Maybe to unconfuse those am/pm people? I prefer 26:00 over 2am for sure ("oh, or is it open til 2pm")

Just regional.
In USA, people look at you weird if you use 2400 time, and think you're in the military (bc usa military uses 2400). I guess subtracting 1200 is too hard for some people
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12887647