Re: Demo: Modelling Cost of Travel Paths Between Towns

From: Nick Landsberg <SPAMhukolauTRAP_at_SPAMworldnetTRAP.att.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:57:01 GMT
Message-ID: <xZcld.893195$Gx4.645930@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>

frosty wrote:

> Nick Landsberg wrote:
>

>>Then the question reduces itself as to how to represent the
>>instance of time which is "midnight" - 2400 hours or 0000 hours?
>>
>>NPL

>
>
> I've heard people say "twenty-four hundred hours."
> I've never heard anyone say "zero hundred hours."
>
> Maybe 00:00 is "midnight am," and 24:00 is "midnight pm."
>

Normal usage, as far as I can recall, is the "2400 hours"

However, I am not (recently) familiar with usage for "one minute past midnight" ... I used to know it as "zero, zero hours and zero one minutes"

NPL

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