>>Er, "00:00" is not military time but 24-hr time. The military uses no colon, (e.g. 1200, 1324, as opposed to 12:00 and 13:24). 24hr time is used in many countries (probably most countries around the world). And as said in this thread, it's 00:00, not 24:00 (goes from 00:00 to 23:59).
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>Alex;
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>LOL! Very good Alex! You are absolutely correct. Perhaps “Military Time” is dependant upon whose military, branch of the service, what your job was, and the context of the mission.
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>I remember we also called it “Zulu Time”, which is the equivalent of GMT and this was used on an international level by commands to prevent ambiguity. Imagine stating a mission will begin at 0600? By whose watch? Where are the command and the mission located? They could be on opposite sides of the world and often are. We would write 6 AM for international missions as: 0600Z and pronounce it “oh six hundred Zulu”. So it would seem we had two military times – local and Zulu.
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>By the way we had a clock that had a 24 hour face. That is it was divided into 24 continuous hours. So it took one full day to make one complete revolution around the face of the instrument. It had 2400 clearly marked but not 0000. How is that to help add to the confusion? I am sure if your commander stated 2400 or 0000 you would not question or think about “correctness”. It was very clear what was meant. I can assure you that I had received orders that included both times on many occasions.
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>By the way at one duty station here in the States we had a “Zulu” clock on the wall so you would know the correct International time. We would get calls from all over the world and when we went to or from day light savings time trying to figure out “Zulu” time was not an option!
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>Tom


Time is relative. lol

Einar