[GreenKeys] Military Time -vs- UTC

[Sheldon Daitch]

Guess I might be one of those unwashed US civilians, as I've heard for many years that military time meant using the 24-hour clock as the typical use of time in the US armed forces is to always designate time in the 24-hour clock format.


A convention that we tend to use at work is that if the time is designated in the 12-hour clock format, with AM or PM, it means local time.  If we used the 24-hour clock format, it means UTC.  This is particularly the convention used at our stateside operations.


UTC vs local time does tend to be a bit more complex when we live in a country which is usually using the 24-hour clock format, but we will also use context to determine whether it is local time or UTC - dealing with non-program issues, it is local time, program issues, always UTC.


VOA seems to have gotten away from designating any times in its normal programming, perhaps because not all air shows are live and some are repeats, so any hour specific times would be in error for the repeats.


One live show, BORDER CROSSINGS, which does not have an air repeat, the host of that show, Larry London, does designate the broadcast timing in the VOA format, universal time.


73

Sheldon

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Another thing that indicates that the information on that website was written by an unwashed US civilian is that I never heard anyone but a US civilian refer to the 24-hour clock as "military time". Although other countries do sometimes or even mostly use the 12-hour clock, most people living in them know about the 24-hour clock and don't automatically call it "military time". The first times I ever heard the time being routinely reported on the 24-hour system was probably on either the BBC or maybe Radio Havana.

Robert Downs - Houston










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