*- On 18 Mar, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!" > > In reply to:Colin Telmer > > Quoting Colin Telmer([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: >> >> > > Midnight is 0000 hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it >> > > changes to >> > > 00:00:00. >> > >> > Midnight is 2400 hours. After 24:00:00 it changes to 00:00:01 >> > >> > I'm as authoritative on this subject as you are, so who's correct? >> >> Here's a solid source - from all the bad war movies I've seen over the >> years, I have heard "0 hundred hours" but not "24 hundred hours":) >> >> If only I could finish my thesis with such rigour. >> > > When I was in the Air Force I remember having to stand fire watch from 2400 > to 0400 hrs. Now that was in fact real life, so YMMV. :-> >
Sorry to bring up this tired old subject buty I saw a reference to this FAQ and figured I would bring it up here. http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/faq/faq.htm#14 I think the National Institute of Standards and Technology might know what it is takling about. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." - unknown Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------