i need to know waht time the first atomic bomb was dropped!!!
2007-04-22 06:42:50 · 7 answers · asked by irmolilc06 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It's 8:15 a.m. local time. Here's how it converts with the crossing of the International Date Line:
08:15:17 Wednesday August 6, 1945 in Asia/Tokyo converts to
18:15:17 Tuesday August 5, 1945 in America/Detroit (6:15 p.m. for the Eastern time zone of the US)
There was no Daylight Savings Time as we know it in 1945.
2007-04-22 06:58:26 · answer #1 · answered by GenevievesMom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the other answers are correct, but just want to give you some more insight into how this works.
The military works on the 24-hour clock, which starts at midnight and which is called 0000 hours. Then 1am is 0100, 2am is 0200, etc. So 0815 hours is 8:15am. After noon (1200 hours), it becomes a little weird. 1pm becomes 1300 hours (since it's the 13th hour of the 24 hour day), 2pm becomes 1400 hours, and so on. This is how you know when it's morning or afternoon. It's a lot easier to use this type of time in telling what part of the day it is, and it's also used in time formats on military messages (which I used to draft).
Hope this makes it a little more comprehensible!
2007-04-22 07:10:56 · answer #2 · answered by alimagmel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
0815 hours is equivalent to 8:15 am
2007-04-22 07:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
8:15 am
2007-04-22 06:56:49 · answer #4 · answered by →sugarwuss 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
8:15 am
2007-04-22 06:47:16 · answer #5 · answered by Cow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means 8:15 AM, so techincally it isn't a length of time, but an actual time.
2007-04-22 06:59:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is military time for 8:15 A.M. (not P.M.
2007-04-22 06:48:49 · answer #7 · answered by O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋