19:00 hours

Ever since that table saw accident, I have to convert everything to base 8, do the math, then convert back again.....

In the USA, military personnel avoid confusion between morning and afternoon times -- a.m. and p.m. -- by using a 24-hour clock, rather than a 12-hour clock. After noon, add 12 to the hour to convert to military time. For example, 1:00 p.m. becomes 1300 in military time and 11:00 p.m. becomes 2300 in military time. This is also known as government time.

The US government workers also avoid confusion between a.m. and p.m. by using a 24-hour clock. It's the same as military time.


As CJ already pointed out before, most European countries (and others worldwide) use the 24 hour system, established already in 19th century.

(19:00 hours is, btw, half last dog's watch. And the bell strikes then two strokes. :wink: )

hey this is america need we say more

no metric spoken here - LOL

Actually, time and date are the only remaining non-metric systems we still have got ... all of us :wink:

LOL

wait till we have to accept some stardate timing or something - that will go over like a ton of bricks LOL

After we get time standardized, let's get numerical dates standardized. When I see 02/07/05, I don't know whether it's Feb. 07 or July 02. Here too, military and government put day first and month second, while most civilians put month first and day second. At least you don't have to guess after the twelfth.

I prefer Julian dates. But then I enjoy binary numbers, too.

There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Dates and times are already standardised:

ISO 8601.

Year:
YYYY (eg 1997)
Year and month:
YYYY-MM (eg 1997-07)
Complete date:
YYYY-MM-DD (eg 1997-07-16)
Complete date plus hours and minutes:
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20+01:00)
Complete date plus hours, minutes and seconds:
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00)
Complete date plus hours, minutes, seconds and a decimal fraction of a
second
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30.45+01:00)
where:

YYYY = four-digit year
MM = two-digit month (01=January, etc.)
DD = two-digit day of month (01 through 31)
hh = two digits of hour (00 through 23) (am/pm NOT allowed)
mm = two digits of minute (00 through 59)
ss = two digits of second (00 through 59)
s = one or more digits representing a decimal fraction of a second
TZD = time zone designator (Z or +hh:mm or -hh:mm)

your way is the extra steps way to me - i don't have the patience to get other numbers involved when i only need the two i'm working with

It's all in how you look at it, I guess.

Yes, Walter, ISO has done a fine job of establishing standards; however, I have yet to receive my first piece of correspondence with the year preceding the month and day. Also, as I check this thread I notice that A2K is also not in compliance.

Well that is only so, because YOU let it do that way:
it's YOUR choice to alter the date/format here (in 'Profile'), not an A2K presetting :wink:

Walter, I just checked my profile and found no option for date format. Also, I notice that the when joined date is in the same format for all posters, and the posted dates on all entries are in the same format but differ from the when joined format.

Yes flyboy, you do have the date format option in
your profile. I just changed mine ....

Walter, I erred in my last post. I found the date format option at the bottom of the profile page. I apparently selected the default option as apparently did 100% of the posters

Calamity, we were apparently posting at the same time. What was your previous date format?

The default option, just like yours flyboy. But now I've
changed it to "23rd August 2005, 3:30 pm"

Judging by the date on your last post, Calamity, I assume that option block is non functional. This would explain why all of the dates are in the same format.

I see Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:49 pm as flyboy's last post time.

flyboy, whatever option YOU choose,
will show up in every posting from thereon.
I probably had chosen a different option than you.