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24 hour clock

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colin(bridgend)

On the main Forum content page the postings are shown on a 24 hour clock, however once you have clicked onto a particular part of the forum the time is shown on a normal clock eg 06:00pm. Is there any reason for this or am I just nit picking?
 
Hi Colin. I mentioned this on 21 March but nothing has happened. Personally, I think the 24 hour clock is simpler - do you all agree?
 
Personally I prefer the normal clock,I still cannot get used to the 24hr clock. Sorry Eileen. How about you Colin, or don't you mind? Liz
 
Beg your pardon Eileen - I didn't see your posting. I don't mind either but it seems rather silly running two different means of displaying the same information.
 
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hi cris just wanted to ask a little question i hope you dont mind, i have been a regular vistor to this site for the last 6 months,i mainly just read everything but occasionaly post a message on here ,so heres the question in some of your replys you sound as if you came from "south africa" is this true ? as i come from there
 
I findeveryone else is confused Garry, I never have a problem with it ;-)

The only time for delivery we ever give a client is "when we get there". If we get any grief, a cursory glance at watch followed by " well we're on Zulu time " if the don't like we leave 🙂

In response to Alan's "little" question, no I don't mind and the answer is NO !!!!!!!!!!!!
 
As a former RN communicator we always used Zulu time as well as the local time, so even when the UK was on BST (Alfa time) we used Z time.

Turning up at the wrong time for watch for this reason only ever happened on changeover dates and then rarely.

I definitely prefer 24 hour clock whatever the time zone.

In the forces the clock runs from 0001 to 2359 to avoid any date confusion with 0000 or 2400.

I have had some interesting debates with family and friends about 12:xx a.m. where they have argued that this is the morning because of being prefixed by 12. and suffixed by a.m., in reality it should be 00:xx p.m.(p.m. is post meridian or after midday)

The 24 hour clock removes any doubts about this.
 
All the military coms guys I knew always ran ops with Zulu time as a datum, it's so different military people in different times zones can work together and co-ordinate op's is it not.
 
Absolutement!

Imagine the confusion if you were using 2 or 3 local times and Zulu time, as well as ships, planes etc passing between time zones or of unknown location - Bedlam!

Sometimes people do make mistakes and use local time though.
 
I have never come across the term "spec ops" specifically related to comms only but some services use different terminology for the same subjects.

Special ops as a wider subject, of course - yes.

As far as comms go loosely the same broad methods and procedures are used whatever the sphere of operations.

I will have to stop now or I will end up putting bunting (flags) up on the rally field or using semaphore to help other caravanners park and neither of those was ever my forte!
 
It's a "pongo" one actually and "on the hill" may give an answer;-) if were sea bourne Navy you would have probabaly had signals relayed via the hill at times outside the UK.

One comms guy on a lonely Christmas night shift having been sneaked a few drinks as everyone else partied sent "am I the only ****er in the world working tonight", word was that all massages on what ever he was doing went to the highest military and political levels. He got a very humerous message back and spent the next month doing extra duties :-(
 
Not had much to do with "pongos" more to do with "crabfats".

"the hill" does not ring any bells to do with the Army except for the Sean Connery film

They all have their own networks and I am reluctant to be more specific than this.

I know it might sound a bit showy but ex services are still subject to the official secrets act and it is difficult to know where to draw the line (particularly comms) before inviting a wrist slap, there is plenty of information on the web and in the public domain.

I have been to sea but spent most of my time shore based and am quite happy to discuss less specific issues like the story you mention.

Were you in the services, you seem to know terminology etc.?
 
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Same here Garry, time gone by a long time ago.

The "hill" (sarcastic) is VERY high and some services will have gone "walkabout" there if they were fit. We had the one or two on attachment from the navy at times ;-)
 
ps.

Crabfat is one I've not heard for a long time. I've a really great joint Comm's Pongo and Crabfat story but can't post it here ;-(

Guzz man myself, probably why I never joined the Navy ;-0
 
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