That’s interesting. How do they say it out loud? If 6am / 6:00 / 0600 is said “oh six hundred”, is 0000 “oh oh hundred”? “oh zero hundred”? “zero thousand”? “quadruple oh”?
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dfc09@lemmy.world 8 months agoArmy here, we always say 0000 for midnight, but honestly that’s probably just because it’s what our phones and watches call it. Perhaps it was different before electronic timekeeping was the norm.
Acamon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
dfc09@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh-zero-hundred or zero-hundred if we gotta. Generally… Midnight lol
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 8 months ago
oh oh oh oh
zero zero zero zero
oh zero hundred
midnight
twelve
what a trip
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Zero-Dark-Thirty
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
That’s interesting. Marine here and once when I was deployed and writing up “significant event” reports for briefs, the Watch Officer never wanted to say 0000. He thought it would be too confusing when looking back and trying to figure which day it actually was. Is 0000 on 20231023 Monday at midnight or Sunday at midnight? He had us use either 2359 or 0001 and the date to clarify. 0000 didn’t exist for him, but it might have just been his own personal pet peeve.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s pretty commonly done with 12hr time too, for the same reason: to help protect against stupidity.
dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world 8 months ago
00:00 is the time with the new (“tomorrow”) date, 24:00 is the time with the old (“yesterday”) date.
24:00 isnt really used, in my experience. Also, many people dont mentally switch dates until they went to bed.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Watch officers HATE this one ambiguous millitary time/dating convention