Saturday, June 04, 2005
24 Hour System
Our company is in the process of changing over to the 24 hour time system. That's great for ex-military guys like me who have always used the 24 hour system and wish everyone else did.
There are many reasons why the 24 hour system is better. But the most useful is the fact there is no confusion between am and pm. (0900 & 2100.) If you are a sloppy writer or even 'typer', the zero in front will usually tell you it is am. If the figure is a one or two, then it is pm.
I have used it so much that if someone says I have a meeting at two o'clock on Monday, my fingers automatically write down 1400.
The trick to learning it from scratch, is don't convert. If you keep counting on your fingers from 12 on to figure out what time it is, you will never learn it. You have to think in '24 hour blocks'. It is like learning a new language, don't translate, think in the terms you are using.
Now my company is doing something I never heard of. They work on 26 hour days. (Because if a vehicle is dispatched today and stays out until after midnight, it is still on today's work.)
Now...let's see...2510...is that am or pm...?
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Our company is in the process of changing over to the 24 hour time system. That's great for ex-military guys like me who have always used the 24 hour system and wish everyone else did.
There are many reasons why the 24 hour system is better. But the most useful is the fact there is no confusion between am and pm. (0900 & 2100.) If you are a sloppy writer or even 'typer', the zero in front will usually tell you it is am. If the figure is a one or two, then it is pm.
I have used it so much that if someone says I have a meeting at two o'clock on Monday, my fingers automatically write down 1400.
The trick to learning it from scratch, is don't convert. If you keep counting on your fingers from 12 on to figure out what time it is, you will never learn it. You have to think in '24 hour blocks'. It is like learning a new language, don't translate, think in the terms you are using.
Now my company is doing something I never heard of. They work on 26 hour days. (Because if a vehicle is dispatched today and stays out until after midnight, it is still on today's work.)
Now...let's see...2510...is that am or pm...?
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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