military time

[sophie_1003]

How does military time work for eg) 3.15 am?

[KebabMeister]

UK military time works in Zulu time, or in other words, GMT.

Therefore 3.15am would be indicated as 0315Z (if during GMT time) or 0215Z (if during British Summer Time/Daylight Saving Time).

Or were you thinking of something else?

[Clanad]

Your age is showing KebabMeister... the preferred terminolgy is now Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)...  I, likewise, still refer to it as Zulu though...

[gen2]

There is interesing information about military/NATO time zones here

[KebabMeister]

Hehe.

UK and some European countries still use Zulu 'Z' on signals.  Not sure about North America mind.  I think it's changing slowly since the old style signal is changing/being replaced.

[kaktus]

If your're thinking of "be here at 1800 hours soldier" and not time zones. Then the day starts (like always) 1 second after midnight with  00:01 then continue with one o'clock being 01:00 continuing until 24:00 which is midnight and only last for one second. So if every hour has a number between 0 and 24. Your example would be 15:15. I saw an episode of Friends last night where Monica says, just subtract 12, an easy way to do it e.g.

15-12=3 or 18-12=6.

Sorry if my explanation is messy and sorry if I misunderstood your question completely.

[kempie]

kaktus - is 24:00 the usual way to signify midnight in Denmark?

Internationally, the convention is for midnight to be shown as 00:00, although there is no hard-and-fast rule for this.

[kaktus]

Yep kempie it is, not that 00:00 isn't used, but 24:00 is the usual way to write it. I would never say it though, as I would with 18:00 or 15:00.

[kempie]

Tak.

[kaktus]

Det var s� lidt ;0)

[Skids]

2400 hours does not exist in the Royal Navy.  Zulu is GMT because GMT is in the time zone with the letter code 'Z'.  France being in 'A', Turkey in 'C', and so on.  Everything was refered to in Zulu time so that different units based around the world would be properly co-ordinated.  When expressing the 24 hour clock, the hour/minute seperator is never shown.  3:00 pm would be 1500.

[marmaduke]

And yet the question asked about 3.15 am.

[kaktus]

Oops You're right about that marmaduke. I'll use the excuse that I'm not used to using am and pm references...

Well obviously it will be 03:15 and twelve hours later it be 15:15

[sophie_1003]

sorry I haven't been very clear, what I mean is, how would you say "Be there at 3.15 soldier" in military time, such as you would say "Be there at zero five hundred hrs" for 5am

[KebabMeister]

Depends on who was issuing the command.  I've heard 'O 3 fifteen' (O not zero), or 'Zero three fifteen' or 'Zero three one five'.

05:00 would usually be 'O five hundred'

[sophie_1003]

thank you, not sure why i even wanted to know now! but cheers anyway!