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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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