Clocks only go up to 23:59
There is no 24:36.
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Yeah the military don't know that!!! ;)
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MovieChat Forums > U.F.O. (2012) Discussion > Clocks only go up to 23:59
@strawberrymilkandgin-You are wrong. There are 24 hours in a day, not 23 hours and 59 minutes. Midnight in military time is 2400 hrs. The next increment of time is 0001 hrs. Also in military time there is no semicolon between the hours and minutes. 23:59 would be written 2359 hrs. Get your facts straight before you post.
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from wikipedia:
The 24-hour clock notation avoids these ambiguities by using 00:00 for midnight at the start of the day and 12:00 for noon. From 23:59:59 the time shifts (one second later) to 00:00:00, the beginning of the next day. In 24-hour notation 24:00 can be used to refer to midnight at the end of a day.
i admit i don't have much experience using military time, except from when i went to a technical college which had round-the-clock classes & used military time.
according to the above paragraph, some clocks apparently will show midnight as 24:00 (with the semicolon, which is actually a colon, but i digress..)
most military clocks show midnight as '00:00:00' which is just one second after 23:59:59.
i'm sure there are plenty of places where clocks use no colons, & perhaps even some clocks will display '2400' instead of '0000'
in any case, there is no, & i repeat NO 24:36.
not ever.
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it was interesting getting this reply over a year after i posted the thread. honestly, i can barely remember watching this movie at all, & i had to really stare at the main page a long time to figure out which movie it was.
it's the one where van damme blows up at the end, right?
that's all i can remember.
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There you are correct. There is no 2436 hrs.
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The differences, and confusion, kicks in with the introduction of digital clocks, which use a colon, and the different way time is spoken between the 12 hr and 24hr format.
The 24 hour format is just a more formal way to relay the time when it's critical there is no confusion. People call it military time, but it's also used in science, medicine, and usually when there is shift work involved. (Military, science, and medicine also all work around the clock shifts.)
The 24 hour format is distinguished by "hrs" behind the time and no colon. Even if you were reading a digital clock that read 24 hour time and had a colon - you should ignore the colon and just add hrs behind the time.
People that don't work around the clock can say things like, "Be at work at 9 tomorrow", and it's just assumed to mean 9am, not 2100hre. This is pretty easy to understand.
The confusion comes at midnight - for both formats. That's when the spoken times kind of do an overlap. 12:30am seems odd when you've been up all day, and again is the reason not to use 12 hour format for shift work.
On the other hand it's not easy to tell someone to show up for work at 0030hrs. Easy, and correct, to write that time, but not using spoken time. So the spoken time of 0030hrs would be 2430hrs. Then at 1:00am it just continues as 0100hrs, or O, (as in zero), one hundred hours.
After using the 24 hour format for awhile the shift between becomes automatic. When someone says tonight at 10 you don't have to add 12 to 10 to figure out they mean 2200hrs - it just pops into your head. You drop the hours at the end when speaking when it's familiar. Not when writing, because it could be confused with another number.
This means if you're standing in the street with someone and they say something is going to happen at 2435 in your head you'll understand them to mean 12:35am or 0035hrs. If they handed you a note that said something is going to happen at 2435 - you could go Grammar Nazi all over their ass - even though you knew what they meant.