From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2012-03-08T03:38:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Time. to_military_time?

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 08:28:33PM +0900, Wayne Brissette wrote:
> You are correct, and I was wondering the same thing. Unless he has some
> OS that's not giving him the universal (except in North America) 24
> hour time and using AM and PM suffixes, but then I would think the
> issue would be just as easy, add 12 to PM, put in the exception to when
> midnight happens so you don't end up with 2405 (unless that's your
> preference. In the Marines it was always 2400 for midnight and 0001 for
> one minute past). 

Somehow, I managed to never see midnightish times in print when I was in
the army, but everybody tended to pronounced it "oh-dark-hundred"
(obviously with somewhat humorous intent).  This, to me at least, seems
to indicate 0000 for midnight, but I don't have any actual memory of
something in print confirming that.

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