Posted on Jul 17, 2020
In the military why is mid-night spoken one way and written another way?
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When we talk about mid-night, we say 2400 but when we enter it in a Watch Standers Log, it is written as zeros. Does anyone know if 2400 really exists or is it 0000
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Great question...I never got settled which was which. I just went with 2359 or 0001 and pretended the minute in between didn't exist. Speaking, I would just say midnight.
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Dude, I never thought of that! I always used 0000. I've seen that before and never realized that was what they were doing! That's perfect and exactly what an NCO would do!
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When speaking, it was always just 'Midnight'. When writing, I was always told to write the stroke of midnight as 2400 then at midnight plus one second it went to zeroes. Never made much sense to me, either, other than a way to designate one date ending and the next beginning.
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