(Solution)Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!
*- On 18 Mar, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!"
>
> 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.
>>
>
> 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. :->
>
Sorry to bring up this tired old subject buty I saw a reference to
this FAQ and figured I would bring it up here.
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/faq/faq.htm#14
I think the National Institute of Standards and Technology might know
what it is takling about.
--
Brian
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