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I'm personally a fan of the 12 hour format for casual conversation and 24h for anything else. 4 PM or 4 in the afternoon sounds better than 16:00 for casual speak imo.
But man, I'm bad with the 24h format lol. I often need to consciously correct myself in that 18:00 =/= 8 PM.
As someone who lives in a country that does not speak english and uses the 24-hour format, you don't say "see you at 17", you say "see you at 5", you will know just by context, AM and PM does not make a diference most of the time thanks to context and when it does we just say "8 at night" or "6 in the morning"
Frankly you don't even need to use AM/PM for casual conversation... "I'll see you at four" almost certainly doesn't mean 4am unless it's very clear from contextual information, same for verbally booking appointments
It's just things like travel timings etc which are likely going to be written anyway where you actually need that clarification