Occasionally, in the US Navy, I have seen and used 24 hour analog
clocks. They are inconvenient and users are prone to error unless they
take care to look at them carefully.
Jim
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Han Maenen wrote:
> This probably means nothing. Their clocks may have 12 hour faces, but they
> still use the 24 hour clock. That is the practice here too. There are in
> fact only few real 24 hour analog clocks. The Rusians surely do not use
> AM/PM explicitly, they can convert the times after 12 noon instantly.
>
> Han
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James J. Wentworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: woensdag 27 december 2000 16:32
> Subject: [USMA:10066] AM/PM time format in Russian military?
>
>
> > I recently found a company called The Sovietski Collection
> www.sovietski.com
> > that sells imported items from Russia and other Eastern European
> countries.
> > All of their products are (blissfully) metric, of course.
> >
> > They carry several Russian military-issue clocks and watches, including
> > Typhoon-Class nuclear submarine clocks and instrument panel clocks from
> > Tupolev strategic bombers. Surprisingly, only the bomber instrument panel
> > clock has a 24-hour face. The rest have 12-hour faces (even the submarine
> > clock).
> >
> >
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
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