What is it with the yank military saying "seventeen hundred hours"? There are not 1,700 hours in the day. The two zeroes are MINUTES! It's not even "seventeen hundred minutes" - there are SIXTY minutes in an hour, not 100!
They time the day as 24 hours, with no 12 hour AM and PM designations.
Yes, there are 24 hours, not 2,400 hours. It's not "fifteen hundred hours" mid afternoon, it's "fifteen hours". Where does the hundred come from?
They're using Star-Date time like Star Trek .. getting ready for the new Space Force ! ... coming soon - after they finish the wall. John T.
--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: snipped-for-privacy@netfront.net ---
I think Wilkinson Sword knows what it means. He's jealous that the Brits tell time in shillings or something.
It's the time of day, 5pm. f****it.
Wondered if it was him and answers revealed it.
From the 17:00 way of writing it, you pathetic excuse for a troll.
Politicians (not scientists) make policy...which is why we have 12 hour clocks and 24 hour clocks and daylight saving time and time zones. To make matters worse, politicians can't even make up their minds when to start and stop daylight saving time so they tweak the rules every few decades or so.
And you can't help but wonder why the idiot Canaduh Newfounlanders offset their time zone by 3:30.
There should be no daylight savings time. And if we do have it, it should be the other way round! In winter, when we have less daylight hours, they move the clocks so that we get less light in the evening!!
I know "seventeen hundred hours" means 17 o'clock. But there are not hundreds of hours. It's factually incorrect, and only something an American could come up with.
I never did understand why Picard was French but spoke in an extremely posh English accent. "Numbah won!" "Stahdayte fore threee ayt poynt sevvenn!"
1700 = 5pm ---> 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
HTH :-)
Only in 12 hour format, You can't speak like that on a train station or the conductor will get confused.
Only in the UK. Conductors understand it over here since they are much smarter.
I'm sure they'd understand it anywhere, but 24 hour clocks are used for timetables for a good reason, no duplicates. It was pretty damn stupid to have 24 hours in a day but only have 12 numbers.
HomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.