From: Kevin <darkintent@...>
Date: 2012-03-15T07:48:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Time. to_military_time?

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
>

I set most of my clocks to twenty-four hour time and they all display
midnight as 0000.