Converting from decimal hours to hours and minutes is a different issue than converting between regular and military time. Is Midnight or ? The question sometimes arises whether midnight is written as or Military and emergency services personnel refer to midnight both ways.
However, digital watches and clocks that display time in a hour format and computer equipment treat midnight as the start of a new day and express it as Writing Military Time Different professions and types of organizations write military time differently.
The military, emergency services and hospitals usually write military time as hours and minutes without a colon and often add the word "hours" afterward. The format is: hours minutes Example: or hours When expressing time down to the second, they insert a colon between the minutes and seconds using the format hours minutes : seconds Example: or hours In science and engineering, colons are usually inserted between the hours, minutes, and seconds.
The formats used to express time are: hours : minutes Example: and hours : minutes : seconds Example: Sources of Military Time Two sources of military time are digital wrist watches and hour clocks.
Many digital watches provide the option of displaying the time in either regular or military format. Various firms manufacture hour clocks. In this case, the citizens of these countries will use the format they prefer, but official establishments such as police or healthcare are required to use the hour format for all documentation and appointments. Nowadays, military time is used all over the world. The only difference is that the United States uses an original military time when the rest of the countries will use a standard hour clock format, separating hours from minutes with a colon and sometimes skipping the leading zero.
There are twenty-five military time zones. The names are taken from the NATO phonetic alphabet which is commonly used in military and other authorities. The rest of the abbreviations and the time zones that they represent are shown in the chart below 3 :.
As you can see from the chart shown before, Z-time corresponds to the time on the prime meridian usually mentioned as Greenwich. Nowadays military time is used mainly to avoid any possibility of misinterpretation time and mistaking a. All official authorities and especially spheres that require collaboration and communication with different countries from distinct time zones will use the hour clock system.
But in reality, this format had appeared a long time before these institutions even existed. The military time started its existence many centuries ago. The first prototype was used in ancient Egypt. During the day, ancient Egyptians were using a solar clock that was divided into 10 sectors-hours. The shadow from the stick would show the time when it reached the sectors marked on the wall or floor. This simple construction helped them to determine the time throughout the day, but at night they were orientating in time by watching the stars.
There were 36 groups of stars that would rise one by one with an interval of 40 minutes 4. The first mechanical hour format clock was found in Italy.
It was a complex mechanism that needed ropes to hit the strokes. The last one would happen at Midnight. Unfortunately, it required a lot of rope, therefore, later the amount and frequency of strokes had to be diminished 5. Also, the first person to propose the hour format clock was Sir Sandford Fleming. He worked a lot to elaborate an optimal way of timekeeping and took part in developing Coordinated Universal Time.
But the situation that made him come up with the idea of the hour clock notion was quite trivial. In , he missed a train because the ticket contained an error: instead of a. This situation inspired the scientist to work on a new format so this type of mistake could be avoided in the future.
During the 20th century, a lot of European countries decided to implement this format after the government of Great Britain adopted a hour clock format all over the country in It took almost 40 years for the United Kingdon to make this change official and it took several attempts to achieve it.
Amongst the countries that followed this practice were France, Denmark and Greece. Meanwhile, the rest of the world also started to consider changing their time format.
First, they implemented it for the army and a couple of years later on a national level. Even some local channels will display time in both formats. However, all official establishments are required to use military time to avoid any possible misinterpretation. The airlines around the world also use this format 7.
Like anything that is a part of our daily routine, military time is not an exception and has its reflection in some aspects of our lives. This expression, which is the base of this film, in reality means the time after midnight at a. There are even more movies that contain some references for military time. Its use is more common for stories related to military, detectives or thrillers.
Caroline Bunker Rosdahl Dohrn-Van Rossum, Gerhard Clock and Modern Temporal Orders. Clark Blaise The regular time is based on the hour clock format. By demarcating the hours within a hour time frame or day with a specific number, ranging from 1 to 24 , any confusion that might arise between AM and PM when relying upon a standard civilian time is eliminated.
For instance, AM in military time is expressed as zero one hundred hours , while PM would be represented as thirteen hundred hours. For example, PM would be expressed as hours. When converting from standard civilian time to military time or vice versa, the minutes and seconds do not change.
Military time is a precise method for timekeeping used by the military, as well as plenty of different emergency service agencies and personnel, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical professionals and others.
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