• Omnipitaph@reddthat.com
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    9 days ago

    You’re still not correct. Here

    You are correct that 12:10 is 00:10, but that’s not what was said. I said 12am is the 24th hour.

    Plop in 24:00 into military, guess what you get? 12am my guy.

    I’ll explain why this is the case. 12am is marking the 12th hour of the evening, 12:01+ is counting into the first hour of the next morning. Same with 24th hour, 24:00 is the end of the 24th hour. There is no 24:01, it rolls around to 00:01 marking the first minute of the next day. 24:00 still exist though, it marks the massing of the last minute of the last hour of the day.

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      7 days ago

      What? The US military uses 24 for just one minute? Seems so unnecessary. Why would they do that?

      World     US military
      
      HH:MM:SS  HH:MM:SS
      23:59:59  23:59:59
      00:00:00  24:00:00
      00:00:01  24:00:01
      00:00:02  24:00:02
      ...         ...
      00:00:59  24:00:59
      00:01:00  00:01:00
      00:01:01  00:01:01
      

      Really? Do they order custom clocks for this etc? Do they have custom settings on their computers to add that extra minute?

      Edit: It says in the time chart on the site you linked that 00:00 = 12 am. What are you on about?