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Re: Military time (whoops!)

** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey"  on Fri, 16
Jun 2006 09:32:24 -0400


> "2400" (Twenty four hundred") is a darn sight easier to
> verbalize than 0000, which would be what?

"Zero hours, Greenwich Mean Time" (or "Coordinated Universal Time", abbreviated
"UTC" for a stupid Franglish reason not worth mentioning). Look, if midnight
is 2400 hours, then what time is it one minute later? 2401? Uh uh! 2400 is
NOT correct! Not for an instant. Even XyWrite knows that.

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Robert Holmgren
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