Having 10 years active duty time and 7 years as a government employee working for the military, the common term for midnight IS "twenty-four hundred hours" or 2400. It does not matter if 0000 is correct or not, it is simply not used. I spent one year working directly with a General, and like Tom, I would not DARE to correct him for using the wrong term. :o) Besides if a supervisor told his troops to 'meet back here at 0000 hours' who knows when everyone would return! :o)

Tracy

>Okay, a quick one - is 12:00 midnight "00:00" in military time or is it "24:00" (you can tell I have never been in the military)? Likewise, is the range of acceptable values "00:01" to "24:00" or "00:00" to "23:59"? And finally, is it possible that both 00:00 and 24:00 are acceptable values?
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>Albert