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.
Comment on Military Time vs 24hr?
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 8 months agoThat’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.
dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world 8 months ago
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Watch officers HATE this one ambiguous millitary time/dating convention
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s pretty commonly done with 12hr time too, for the same reason: to help protect against stupidity.