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Subject:Re: Punctuation in 24 hour system (fwd) From:Robert Bononno <bononno -at- ACF2 -dot- NYU -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 14 Oct 1993 23:48:30 -0400
Mike (or is it Chuck?)
Thanks for the input. Right now I'm divided between the 00:00:00 system
and the 0000:00. The second looks a bit "cleaner" but I don't know if it's
commonly used.
Robert
> I see no problem in punctuating 24-hour time the way you did in your example.
> In my military experience, when we receive operations orders and such, I have
> never received one with the time in seconds.
> A typical date/time group would look like this:
> 140900OCT93
> What this tells me is that the operation will commence on the 14th day of
> October at 9am.
