Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!
Subject: Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!
Date: Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 04:14:18PM -0500
In reply to:Colin Telmer
Quoting Colin Telmer(telmerco@telmer.com):
> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
>
> > > Midnight is 0000 hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it changes to
> > > 00:00:00.
> >
> > Midnight is 2400 hours. After 24:00:00 it changes to 00:00:01
> >
> > I'm as authoritative on this subject as you are, so who's correct?
>
> Here's a solid source - from all the bad war movies I've seen over the
> years, I have heard "0 hundred hours" but not "24 hundred hours":)
>
> If only I could finish my thesis with such rigour.
>
> --
> Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
> <mailto:telmerco@telmer.com>
> <http://www.telmer.com>
When I was in the Air Force I remember having to stand fire watch from 2400
to 0400 hrs. Now that was in fact real life, so YMMV. :->
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