Re: military time

[Guest guest]

0000 hours is 12:00 midnight; 0600 hours is 6:00 a.m.; once you reach

1200 hours which is 12:00 noon, you add 100 hours for each hour. For

example 1530 hours would be 3:30 p.m. I keep military time as dictated,

although I don't know the official ruling.

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:00:45 EDT scooska@... writes:

> The doc dictates military time in two reports I have transcribed. Is

> it

> acceptable to leave as he states or should this be changes. If so,

> how do

> you figure out military time?

>

> Thanks

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In a message dated 4/15/01 1:01:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, scooska@...

writes:

<< The doc dictates military time in two reports I have transcribed. Is it

acceptable to leave as he states or should this be changes. If so, how do

you figure out military time?

Thanks >>

If the doc dictates military time then transcribe it as such (IMO). Here is

what good 'ole AAMT BOS says about military time:

Identifies the day's 24 hours by numerals 1 through 24, rather than 1 a.m.

through noon and 1 p.m. through midnight. Hours 1 through 12 are consistent

with a.m. hours 1 through 12, while hours 13 through 24 correlate with p.m.

hours 1 through 12, respectively. This form always takes four numerals, so

insert the preceding or following zeros as necessary.

Do not separate hours from minutes with a colon or otherwise. Do not use

a.m. or p.m.

Examples: 1300 hours (this would be 1 p.m.)

0845 hours (this would be 8:45 a.m.)

0100 is 1 a.m., 0200 is 2 a.m., 0300 is 3 a.m., and so on all the way up to

midnight, which is 2400.

Holly )

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In a message dated 4/15/01 1:15:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

varhoades1@... writes:

<< 0000 hours is 12:00 midnight >>

This does not exist. 2400 is midnight.

Holly )

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[Guest guest]

I found this on this web site and I have always used 0000 to indicate midnight.

http://www.ehow.com/eHow/eHow/0,1053,2956,00.html

1. Note that the military clock begins with 0000 hours, sometimes called

2400 hours. When spoken aloud, this is said, " twenty-four hundred hours, "

which is the equivalent of midnight.

2. Name morning hours as follows: 1 a.m. is 0100 hours, called " oh one

hundred hours " ; 2 a.m. is 0200, " oh two hundred hours " ; and so forth. This

pattern continues for the morning hours just as with the standard method of

telling time until noon, which is 1200 hours ( " twelve hundred hours " ).

3. Remember that military time continues to ascend for the afternoon hours

rather than beginning a new 12-hour cycle. Thus, 1 p.m. is now 1300 hours,

or " thirteen hundred hours " ; 2 p.m. is 1400 hours; and so forth. This

pattern continues until midnight, at which point the military clock begins

again.

4. Determine afternoon hours in military time simply by subtracting 1200

from them. For example, 1800 hours is 6 p.m. in standard time:

1800-1200=600; 2200 hours is 10 p.m.: 2200-1200=1000.

[Guest guest]

Okay I am confused now. It is too early for me to think so I won't.

Holly )

In a message dated 4/16/01 6:46:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

sjohnso@... writes:

<< Actually, he was correct. Midnight is 2400. One minute after midnight

would be 0001, two minutes

would be 0002, etc. Believe me, after four wonderful years in the military

I became very familiar

with this system.

Sara

HollyBerry1295@... wrote:

> Sorry about that guys......that is what I get for listening to my husband.

I

> asked him if midnight was 0000 and he told me no that it was 2400. So that

> is what I get for asking him! )~ BTW-----when I said 0000 doesn't

> exist......those were his words, not mine....LOL!

>

> Holly )

>

> In a message dated 4/16/01 1:39:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

> varhoades1@... writes:

>

> << Thanks for looking that up. I also was taught to use 0000 hours as

> midnight by an army doctor so it would be easier to determine length of

> time we injected medication over a period of time or how long we had a

> patient in radiology to do a procedure. If we started at 0000 hours and

> ended at 0100 hours, we could subtract 0100 from 0000 and determine the

> medication was given over a period of 1 hour or the patient was in the

> department for an hour. When I was corrected, I thought my memory had

> falled, but that's nothing new.

>

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