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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 9, 2009 17:22:19 GMT -5
I've noticed a lot of films and shows when Military people talk in the 24 hour format.
For example, they say 1900 = "nineteen hundred hours"
And 2100 = "twenty-one hundred hours".
But what happens when it's 2000?
Do they say "twenty hundred hours" or "two thousand hours"?
Just wondering really.
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Post by The Tank on Aug 9, 2009 17:39:46 GMT -5
Twenty-hundred.
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Post by Mattification on Aug 9, 2009 17:51:34 GMT -5
What do they say at midnight?
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Post by sunwukong on Aug 9, 2009 17:52:13 GMT -5
What do they say at midnight? 24 Hundred Hours. |
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Post by 4real on Aug 9, 2009 17:56:54 GMT -5
I've noticed a lot of films and shows when Military people talk in the 24 hour format. For example, they say 1900 = "nineteen hundred hours" And 2100 = "twenty-one hundred hours". But what happens when it's 2000? Do they say "twenty hundred hours" or "two thousand hours"? Just wondering really. You been watching Spaced? |
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Post by Rorschach on Aug 9, 2009 18:02:37 GMT -5
I used to HATE doing logbooks when I was in the military. The twenty-four hour clock is not complicated once you're used to it, but having to record thing on paper...let's just say that I would slip up and automatically write 6:55 PM instead of 18:55 and things like that.
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Post by Mattification on Aug 9, 2009 18:11:20 GMT -5
What do they say at midnight? 24 Hundred Hours. Was kinda hoping for 'zero hour' there. [/disappointed] |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 9, 2009 18:16:33 GMT -5
I've noticed a lot of films and shows when Military people talk in the 24 hour format. For example, they say 1900 = "nineteen hundred hours" And 2100 = "twenty-one hundred hours". But what happens when it's 2000? Do they say "twenty hundred hours" or "two thousand hours"? Just wondering really. You been watching Spaced? Not in ages. It's at the bottom of one of my bags of DVDs I brought to the US with me and haven't sorted out yet. |
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Post by Grendel on Aug 10, 2009 9:54:18 GMT -5
What do they say at midnight? 24 Hundred Hours. Depends. It can also be 0000 so it can be I believe zero hundred hours or zero hour. At least that's what a guy who was in the Navy back in the Seventies and Eighties once told me. |
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Post by Dynamite Kid on Aug 10, 2009 10:41:56 GMT -5
I always thought they called midnight 'oh-hundred-hours.'
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Post by The Booty Disciple on Aug 10, 2009 10:48:04 GMT -5
Depends. It can also be 0000 so it can be I believe zero hundred hours or zero hour. At least that's what a guy who was in the Navy back in the Seventies and Eighties once told me. Depends on the agency too, I think. My dad, when he was a fireman and worked at the women's prison (save the jokes, we've heard them all) referred to midnight as twenty-four hundred hours and then referred to 12:01 AM as either "zero-zero-one" or "no hundred one hours." At 1:00 AM, it became "Oh one-hundred hours." Local PD here in Laramie has a similar situation, and it's sort of funny top listen to them on the scanner around midnight since some of the dispatchers don't always remember the radio discipline to note the time between "Zero-zero hours" and/or ""Oh one hundred hours." |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 10, 2009 13:42:07 GMT -5
I believe it's actually only 0:00 for one second, then it goes to 24:00 01.
I just Wiki, which does not mention this, but I remember being told this in school and have seen clocks do it. I believe some will hold the 00:00 for one minute, since they do not have a second hand.
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