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this confusion about a.m./p.m. was one reason the military adopted a 24-hour "clock."
Still possiblities for confusion.
There was no such time as midnight in the Navy. No one could figure out if it was 0000 or 2400 and whether it was yesterday or tomorrow. Things would be logged as happening at 2359 or 0001, but never any time between those times.
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...no such time as midnight in the Navy. No one could figure (it) out ...
Well --- the *Navy ; )
Twenty-four hundred hours is midnight *exactly*.
Twenty-three 59 hours is one minute before 2400 hours and zero zero one hours is one minute after 2400 hours!
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2400
Maybe in *your Navy. When were you in?
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My Dad's first cousin was a Commodore in the Navy, "Spuds" Ellis. Other than that single aberration we have stayed faithful to the Army and the Air Force (which began as the Army Air Force) My Dad, brother, husband, son have had no trouble with the 2400 hours concept.
Maybe it's those rough seas ...?
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those rough seas
I guess somehow, the idea of having a bare naked 2400 sitting out there all by its lonesome with no 2401 or anything to keep it company was hard to swallow on the one hand and, not being computer types, the idea of starting with 0000 was just as unpalatble. Besides, 2400 would be part of yesterday and 0000 part of tomorrow and the idea that one time could be part of two different days depending on how you referred to it left it hanging in the limbo of unacceptability.
I'm just telling how it was when I was in and on my ship.
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Can't say I've heard/used noon-thirty, but along the same lines, my husband uses "0-dark-thirty" to mean ungodly early.
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What is your defintion of lugubrious? Just asking as a word thang.
Slower...more weighed-down and drawn out.
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In my seagoing naval career, I don't recall ever making a log entry for 2400, but I do recall making 0000 log entries. Similarly, in naval messages, where the DTG (Date Time Group) is the identifying element of the message, I don't recall seeing, for example, a "112400Z" DTG, but it wasn't unusual to see a "120000Z" DTG (the "Z" being Zulu or Greenwich time zone). Now that DTGs are machine generated, rather than manually inserted, I suspect the DTG skips from 2359 to 0000 of the following day. I will have to ask one of my communicator friends.
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Slower...more weighed-down and drawn out.
Nice definition. What's the real word for it?
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Nice definition. What's the real word for it?Yes, indeed, and by golly, folks!...your host, Allen "Faldo" Ludden now invites you to play Password!  "long-winded"http://www.topiclink.com/gameshows/Shows/password
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