Comment on Military Time vs 24hr?
ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months agoLike the bastardization of the 24h clock by the television companies, doesn’t Amarican military time also allow for relative time instead of absolute? Like writing 5:00 on the second day of a time critical mission as 2900?
I’m pretty sure I heard this somewhere, though I have not verified this claim.
Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Sort of? Imo you’ll sometimes hear/see things like T+2900, meaning 2900 minutes after T (T being a common placeholder for “the moment the operation began”). But unless the mission started at 0000, T+2900 doesn’t mean 0500, it means +2900 since T
Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee 8 months ago
By the time I solve for T, the mission will be over.
ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I guess that does make sense, and definitely not as bad as I had misunderstood it to be.
It feels a little weird, and I’m not sure if T+29:00 or equivalents are allowed in ISO 8601, but I have seen computer programs that represent time differences in similar ways.
Thank you for the clarification!