Theodore McFarlane:
In reply to Theodore McFarlane (msg # 127):
"Go ahead and make a reservation for us tomorrow Viridian, close to the Admiral so he notices us. 8:00, we'll bring a few others too."
Rayjaynul Brown:
"Are we talking eight 'undred, or twenty 'undred t'ere? If t'e former I assume t'e Admiral enjoys t'eir breakfast selections?" Rayjay asked, finding it a bit odd that such a fancy looking restaurant would be open at such a time let alone have breakfast options, but he looked forward to it all the same.
Theodore McFarlane:
In reply to Rayjaynul Brown (msg # 129):
"20:00, 8 pm.
The confusion, here, is that, when using "24 Hour" timekeeping, you don't use the colon (:) to separate the "hours" from the "minutes".
In your head, you were probably
saying "Eight o'clock", but wrote "8:00" (and still didn't specify AM or PM) -- but, with
saying the "o'clock" bit, the
PM was likely
implied ... and
could have been
inferred.
I'm not sure about European & Asian usage, but in The States we refer to 24 Hour "times" as "# Hundred Hours" -- thus 8
AM would be called "Eight Hundred hours", or 0800 (also "Oh-Eight Hundred" or "Zero-Eight Hundred" hours, which acknowledges the way that it is "written"), and 8
PM would be "Twenty Hundred" hours, or 2000.
The
last two numbers (of the four) are then used to represent the sixty minutes of that "hour", from 00 to 59 -- so 8:30AM would be 0830, spoken as "Oh-Eight Thirty" (or "Zero-Eight Thirty").
In Milspeak ("Military Speak"; the often-
cryptic terminology used by military personnel) this gets messed with, further.
^_^
When I was in the US Army, we called Midnight "Twenty-Four Hundred" hours (2400), but
only used that for
exactly 2400. At 1 minute
after Midnight, it became "Zero Hundred" hours -- thus "Zero Hundred One". You may have heard a play on this phrase, used to sarcastically refer to "early morning hours" -- that being "Oh-Dark Thirty" (as well as being the name of a pretty good movie).
Not really sure if anyone outside the US Army -- and even
then, it might have only been us Infantry Grunts -- that calls Midnight "Twenty-Four Hundred" hours. A couple of times I've heard US Marines call Midnight "Zero Hundred" hours.
Also, in many TV shows & movies, you've probably seen/heard of something called "Zulu Time". While many military organizations often use this, it's mostly the Navies (
not just the
US Navy) that use it.
"Zulu Time" is what the time is along the Meridian -- 0
0 Longitude on a map of Earth. Knowing the
exact time on the Meridian is important to Nautical Navigation -- and that makes it important to the Navy and the Marines ... and, to a slightly lesser degree, the Air Force (they gotta Navigate, too). As far as the Army is concerned, those "Zulu Time"
Posers can just
Foxtrot-Oscar! ^_^
