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English for Tourism & Hospitality (108) by Prof. Adel AlSheikh 2020/2021
Telling the time the military/aviation way
Military/ Aviation time, put simply, is a way to tell
time using 24 hours instead of 12. Military/Aviation time
uses four numbers, where the first two show the hour and the
last two show the minutes, without a colon. Military/ Aviation
time starts at 0000 in the morning and counts up, using 1300
for 1:00 PM and 2300 for 11:00 PM.
How to tell Military/Aviation Time
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Understand the military/aviation clock:
The military/aviation clock starts at midnight, known as
0000 hours. This is called "Zero Hundred Hours." Instead
of having a twelve-hour clock that resets twice, in
military time, you work with one clock that starts with
0000 at midnight and runs all the way until 2359 hours
(11:59 p.m.) until it resets at 0000 hours at midnight
again. Note that the military clock does not use the colon
to separate the hours and minutes.
For example, while 1 a.m. is 0100 hours, 1 p.m. is 1300
hours.
Contrary to popular belief, the military does not also call
midnight 2400 hours, or "Twenty-Four Hundred Hours."
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