My mom was just explaining how army times works and how to tell the time when it's used, and I asked Why was it even invented, that she didn't know, so I was just wondering.
2007-02-05 16:01:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
What I mean is like 0800 and 16:40
2007-02-05 16:08:46 · update #1
Some military people use terms similar to a form of "military shorthand" when referring to time. For example, the term "Oh Dark Thirty" is not an actual time. But military people use the term to refer to "sometime during the middle of the night" or "sometime very, very early in the morning.
2007-02-05 16:06:13 · answer #1 · answered by Mo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe you are referring to military time. If so, then it is actually called Zulu time. It is used so that no matter what time zone a military installation or maneuver is in, all parties are on the same time. So if it is 0100 in L.A. and 0400 in NYC, military time would be for instance 1000 Zulu in both places,and it would be that across the planet. There is an actual clock that the military has that keeps constant Zulu time 24/7. It is also always given in the 24 hour format to eliminate any mistake between am/pm in the different time ones.
2007-02-06 00:16:22 · answer #2 · answered by John in AZ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard the story as such: A civil war era officer missed a train because it was scheduled to show up at 8. He got to the station 12 hours early, 8 A.M.. He figured their needed to be a way to differentiate between the two, so the military began to use the 24 hour clock.
2007-02-06 02:10:09 · answer #3 · answered by Tucson Hooligan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
army time is easy for everyone to understand. it is universal world wide.
2007-02-06 00:04:58 · answer #4 · answered by wedjb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋