From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2012-03-15T09:51:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Time. to_military_time?

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:48:34AM +0900, Kevin wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I set most of my clocks to twenty-four hour time and they all display
> midnight as 0000.

Yeah, that too.

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