Correct way to write 24 hour-time? Decimalpoint too.

"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
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On a sunny day (Tue, 30 May 2006 21:32:48 GMT) it happened "daestrom"
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"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
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On a sunny day (Tue, 30 May 2006 10:15:53 -0400) it happened krw
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In article ,
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On a sunny day (Tue, 30 May 2006 15:32:35 +0200) it happened Charles
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Bohne
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On Tue, 30 May 2006 09:17:21 GMT, Jan Panteltje
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Wel, i did some introspection, as European, if in the Netherlands at
say 16:48h somebody askes you 'what time is it' (in Dutch: Weet U
ook
hoe laat het is?), I would reply with '12 voor 5' (12 to five).
Because of the context people usually KNOW if it is morning or
evening.

Maybe - but you wouldn't do that on the phone with someone calling
from
"het buitenland" :-)

C.

We should all change to UTC 24h clock.
And drop the anual time shifts for summer and winter time.
You would get used to it fast.....

...and throw away 6B biological clocks?

Earth is only so big.

Bit it's sooo round and only half of it lit up.

Yes that is the problem, I have a little program 'kworldwatch' (Linux)
that displays a worldmap and shows where it is still light.
A watch with a function like that (when all is UTC) would make sense.

OTOH when you call your boss from the 'other side', you get a tape
that says: 'office hours from ww:xxh to yy:zzh', or he will use some
sleepy bad language, or he will be happy with the new contract.

So someone in Sydney might have office hours of 00:00h to 08:00h UTC and
in
London 08:00h to 16:00h UTC and NY office hours would be 13:00h to 21:00h
UTC. How is that less confusing??


But in case of 'events' (phone conferences for example, meetings, etc..)
it would make a lot of sense.
And that annoying updating the watch on the plane stuff would be gone.


Okay, then when you land, the first thing you ask at the airport is, "What
time to people here eat their noon meal, and when is 'normal' working
hours?". The answer might be, "We tend to eat lunch about 20:00 and the
bank is open from 17:00 to 01:00."

Yeah, that's a *lot* more convenient than resetting your watch..... *NOT*

daestrom

You have not travelled a lot right?
I have, and opining times, special holidays, local ways of doing things
differ a LOT all over the world.
And if you have a problem with day and night, there is this big nuclear
powered indicator light in the sky.

Your solution doesn't solve any of those problems though. When communicating
between time zones, the sun is a poor indicator of who is working when etc.

the correct answer would be 18:11

http://www.klokken.dk/

"Alex Coleman" skrev i en meddelelse
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(1) I see several worthy attempts to write the time in a 24-hour
format. Does a definitive format exist?

I want to leave out the seconds. Also note that I am NOT referring
to computer conventions of any sort.

QUESTION: If it is 11 minutes past six in the evening then what is
the correct format?

1816 hrs
18:16 hrs
18:16 hours
18:16 h
18:16
18.16
18-16

Does it vary between being written by a word processor and by hand?
See below.

(2) What is the correct way to write a decimal point? I am English
and that means that a comma is not the correct symbol for the decomal
point.

But ISTR that when the decimal point was written by hand it was in
the air about half the height of the digits. Typewriters and word
prorcessors did not offer that half-way character so a full stop was
used. But is it more correct to handwrite the decimal point as half
way up the height of the digits?




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posted to 3 groups whose members probably
need to be accurate about time recording

On a sunny day (Wed, 31 May 2006 22:15:00 +0200) it happened "Starman"
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the correct answer would be 18:11

http://www.klokken.dk/

Nice site, gives the date too.

"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
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| On a sunny day (Wed, 31 May 2006 22:15:00 +0200) it happened "Starman"
| wrote in
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| the correct answer would be 18:11
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| http://www.klokken.dk/
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| Nice site, gives the date too.


Serverproblemer
Vi beklager. Vi har i øjeblikket problemer med en server. Vi arbejder på
højtryk for at løse problemet, så websitet kan komme op igen snarest.

Tak for din tålmodighed!

"Charles D. Bohne" wrote in message
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| On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:40:30 GMT, "The Sorcerer"
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| "Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
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| | On a sunny day (Wed, 31 May 2006 22:15:00 +0200) it happened "Starman"
| | wrote in
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| | the correct answer would be 18:11
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| | http://www.klokken.dk/
| |
| | Nice site, gives the date too.
|
|
| Serverproblemer
| Vi beklager. Vi har i øjeblikket problemer med en server. Vi arbejder på
| højtryk for at løse problemet, så websitet kan komme op igen snarest.
|
| Tak for din tålmodighed!
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|
|
| Nee: Der tages forbehold for ukorrekte datoer og klokkeslæt på denne
| hjemmeside.
| It works!
| C.

Now it does. I haven't a clue what that double dutch means, but I think
there
was a server problem with the site when I tried to access it. ;-)
This one is a little nicer:
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Mountain/d/-7/java

Androcles.

"Charles D. Bohne" wrote in message
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| On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:40:30 GMT, "The Sorcerer"
| wrote:
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| "Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
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| | On a sunny day (Wed, 31 May 2006 22:15:00 +0200) it happened "Starman"
| | wrote in
| | :
| |
| | the correct answer would be 18:11
| |
| | http://www.klokken.dk/
| |
| | Nice site, gives the date too.
|
|
| Serverproblemer
| Vi beklager. Vi har i øjeblikket problemer med en server. Vi arbejder på
| højtryk for at løse problemet, så websitet kan komme op igen snarest.
|
| Tak for din tålmodighed!
|
|
|
| Nee: Der tages forbehold for ukorrekte datoer og klokkeslæt på denne
| hjemmeside.
| It works!
| C.

Now it does. I haven't a clue what that double dutch means, but I think
there was a server problem with the site when I tried to access it. ;-)

This site is a little nicer:
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Mountain/d/-7/java

We Brits are superb at coordinating time to Greenwich Mean Time.

Androcles.

"Charles D. Bohne" wrote in message
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| On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:44:55 GMT, "The Sorcerer"
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| | Serverproblemer
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| Server problems
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| | Vi beklager.
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| We are sorry.
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| | Vi har i øjeblikket problemer med en server.
|
| We do have a momentary problem with an server.
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| | Vi arbejder på højtryk for at løse problemet,
|
| We work with high speed (lit. high preasure) to solve that
| problem.
|
| | så websitet kan komme op igen snarest.
|
| This website can come op by itself again (?)
| (Don't know what "snarest" means :-)

Seems as if you may have referred to babelfish or similar.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

"snarest" is probably double dutch for "asap" and means
Soon
Now,
Any
Realistic
Estimate (of)
Snafu
Time? -- SNAREST.
The kids in the back seat say "Are we there yet, are we there yet?"
and dad says "snarest".

I suspect "op" is "up", possibly mistranslated by
Unicode (UTF-7 or UTF-8) or Windows (ISO)


| |
| | Tak for din tålmodighed!
| |
| Thank you for your patience.
|
| Now it does. I haven't a clue what that double dutch means, but I think
| there was a server problem with the site when I tried to access it. ;-)
|
| This site is a little nicer:
| http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Mountain/d/-7/java
|
| Thanks!

You are welcome.
It's kinda neat, showing the terminator without Arnie Schwarzenegger
starring in it, but unfortunately it is geared to the geocentric universe,
the sun is shown going around the Earth. At least the yankew .gov
bureaucrats put England, the first state, in a central position even if they
got their physics wrong and joined Einstein's Flat Earth Society.
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonde.../Clockgain.JPG



| We Brits are superb at coordinating time to Greenwich Mean Time.
|
| It's no longer GMT, it's UT now :-)

Ok, the next time I drive 30 miles to London I'll be sure to go via
Universal Studios
http://themeparks.universalstudios.c...r_landing.html
and meet Arnie Schwarzagovner instead of passing Flamsteed House.

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server.php?show...8761&navId=005
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conMediaFile.3324
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conMediaFile.3325


| Have a look at our Swiss solution:
| http://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html
|
Ok...
Now that is a little beyond the cuckoo clocks Einstein was checking
patents for typos while he wrote his cuckoo transformations and blamed
Lorentz for them.

Could you check these for typographical or other errors for me please?
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonde...winParadox.htm
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonde...mart/Smart.htm

(I've found one in "Then sue me if you have the courage,
"Professor" Baez, I'm calling to [should be you] a lunatic.")

Androcles.

"John Christiansen" wrote in message
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| "Charles D. Bohne" skrev i en meddelelse
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| On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:44:55 GMT, "The Sorcerer"
| wrote:
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| | Serverproblemer
|
| Server problems
|
| | Vi beklager.
|
| We are sorry.
|
| | Vi har i øjeblikket problemer med en server.
|
| We do have a momentary problem with an server.
|
| | Vi arbejder på højtryk for at løse problemet,
|
| We work with high speed (lit. high preasure) to solve that
| problem.
|
| | så websitet kan komme op igen snarest.
|
| This website can come op by itself again (?)
| (Don't know what "snarest" means :-)
|
| "snarest" means "as soon as possible" (one of several ways to write that
in
| Danish, could also be "hurtigst muligt")


The Yanks like a Danish. All their food seems to come from somewhere
else for some reason. Danish pastries, English muffins, Italian bread,
German sausage, Swiss cheese, Scotch whisky....although bagels seem
to be just bagels and pizza is just pizza. Even their courgettes are
zuccini.
It's kosher, though.
Androcles



|
| |
| | Tak for din tålmodighed!
| |
| Thank you for your patience.
|
| Now it does. I haven't a clue what that double dutch means, but I think
| there was a server problem with the site when I tried to access it. ;-)
|
| This site is a little nicer:
| http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Mountain/d/-7/java
|
| Thanks!
|
| We Brits are superb at coordinating time to Greenwich Mean Time.
|
| It's no longer GMT, it's UT now :-)
|
| Androcles.
|
| Have a look at our Swiss solution:
| http://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html
|
| C.
|
|

"Charles D. Bohne" wrote in message
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| On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:57:38 GMT, "The Sorcerer"
| wrote:
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| Seems as if you may have referred to babelfish or similar.
| http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
|
| No, I did it out of hand, and it's not Dutch ... 'cause
| I speak Dutch, it's Danish.

Danish is double dutch, isn't it? Anyway, it's all greek to me.

BTW, snipping is the equivalent of throwing the chess board
in the air when you see checkmate is inevitable. Rather graceless,
witless, stupid and you lose anyway.
Androcles

The Sorcerer wrote:

"Charles D. Bohne" wrote in message
.. .
| On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:57:38 GMT, "The Sorcerer"
| wrote:
|
| Seems as if you may have referred to babelfish or similar.
| http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
|
| No, I did it out of hand, and it's not Dutch ... 'cause
| I speak Dutch, it's Danish.

Danish is double dutch, isn't it? Anyway, it's all greek to me.

BTW, snipping is the equivalent of throwing the chess board
in the air when you see checkmate is inevitable. Rather graceless,
witless, stupid and you lose anyway.
Androcles

Chuckweasel is the master of the snip-n-run.

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