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Time: Your preference

Time: Your preference

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The Army makes me say 24.
 
12 hours before mid-day, and 12 hours after mid-day.

Latin trumps mil-speak.

As God intended. He also intended for leading zeros to be truncated.
 
military time = less confusion
 
When I spent time in Europe I found that most of them there use the 24 hour preference.
 
I don't know if this is true, but I have been told that referring to 24 hour time as "military time" is uniquely American.

Presumably because in America it's traditionally only been used by the military... and a few other non-conformists such as myself.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Meh, I'm accustomed to both.
Multiple, previous employers (non military) have used the 24hr system, it's easy to translate into the 12 system.
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Was watching an episode of Hogan's Heroes last night and got to see Col Crittendon's method for translating 24 time to 12 hour time. I don't remember exactly, but it went something like this...

2400 hrs... 2 + 4 is 6... 6 goes into 24 4 times... 6 + 4 is 10... hence, 2400 hrs is 10 o'clock.

:lamo
 
radcen said:
Was watching an episode of Hogan's Heroes last night and got to see Col Crittendon's method for translating 24 time to 12 hour time. I don't remember exactly, but it went something like this...

2400 hrs... 2 + 4 is 6... 6 goes into 24 4 times... 6 + 4 is 10... hence, 2400 hrs is 10 o'clock.

:lamo
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The software we use at work is done in all 24 hrs.
It's so natural now, really don't notice translating, we just do it,
 
radcen said:
Was watching an episode of Hogan's Heroes last night and got to see Col Crittendon's method for translating 24 time to 12 hour time. I don't remember exactly, but it went something like this...

2400 hrs... 2 + 4 is 6... 6 goes into 24 4 times... 6 + 4 is 10... hence, 2400 hrs is 10 o'clock.

:lamo
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My trick is take the last digit subtract 2 and drop the first digit. So for 13:00, 3-2 = 1:00. Though after a while you just get used to it. Quebec uses 24-hour time so I have gotten rather used to it after two years.
 
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