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Subject:RE: Us Vs UK English, How Relevant? From:Mailing List <mlist -at- ca -dot- rainbow -dot- com> To:'Jennifer O'Neill' <jennifer -dot- oneill -at- village -dot- uunet -dot- be>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:41:09 -0500
Jennifer O'Neill [mailto:jennifer -dot- oneill -at- village -dot- uunet -dot- be]
> While reading through a manual to check that
> all was OK for localisation, I came across the term "military time".
>
> ???
>
> Our products have nothing to do with the military. Eventually
> I found a
> colleague who knew what it meant: 24-hour clock. On mainland
> Europe this
> time format is used daily by everyone, not just the military. In the
> documents we do in Europe in my company we only quote time
> in the 24-hour
> format, never AM/PM. We understand AM/PM time (and may speak
> time that way,
> "2 in the morning, 4 in the afternoon") but don't write it so.
Be careful. Maybe they meant Zulu time, which is military
speak for GMT in 24-hour format... not just the format itself.
They use that because military exercises and communications
often cross timezones, so it's just all-round better if
everybody uses GMT (or UTC, or... or...)
