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**Dark Huntress** · 04-10-2008, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Psycho Phoenix

Trust me, for those who have to guess what time it is in other time zones to try and catch people when they're up and about, 24 hour clocks make it a LOT easier.
For example: It is 9:25pm here on AEST (GMT +10:00), if I need to figure out what time it is for someone over in (say) Arizona (GMT -7:00), I turn 9:25pm in to 24-hour (which makes it 21:25), then deduct 17 hours (10 hours to GMT, then the 7 to Mountain Time) which makes it 04:25 or 4:25am in Arizona. (12-hour AM/PM figures given for those who can't follow 24-hour or Military Time)

Mentally and mathematically, this is MUCH easier than trying to figure it out purely in 12-hour with AM/PM. Besides, you usually DON'T things like "meet me in the mess hall at 1800 hours." UNLESS you're in some form of the military (ie: army, navy, air force).
The only problem you run into is whether DST is in effect in either the timezone you're working from or the timezone you're working to.

EXACTLY!!!

And I brought up the time cards because that's another thing, if you still use time cards it's simply easier to calculate your time.

And I bring up the VCR because I don't know how many times I have set my VCR in the past to record something only to find out that either the original time was not set to the correct AM or PM or the recorder time was set wrong and I ended up with NOTHING recorded. They are a little easier to use now that they have auto setups, but idk, I still tend to trust them as much as I would a five year old with MJ.

It's kind of hard to get used to the 24 hr system at first, but once you get used to it it just makes life easier. I won't even buy a watch anymore if it doesn't have a military time option on it.