Bleedin' GMT!

[Scimitar]

I noticed the forum clock hadn't corrected, so spent ten minutes going back and forward, resetting things that didn't work and wonder wtf was going on. Suddenly, it worked and I wondered if the servers for this site must be on the other side of the world, so had caught up with the change as it affected them locally. Seems to make sense.
Of course, it might just be Sod's Law in Action.

 

[eddieo]

well I thought i had oversleeped and missed Andrew Marr show @ 9. I like my sunday morning politics...... going to be dark by 3

 

[Kudoscycles]

Perhaps we should all use Zulu Time
Zulu Time is the world time. It is also known as UT or UTC (Universal Time (Co-ordinated)). All over the planet it is the same time. There are no timezones for UTC. UTC also has no Daylight Saving Time or Summer Time. Also the date is UTC dependend. That means if you live in NewYork and it is 10pm Saturday night (standard) and you would convert the time to UTC you would get 3am Sunday morning as time and date.

UTC is used in plane and ship navigation. UTC is also used by international shortwave broadcasters in their broadcast and program schedules. Ham radio operators, shortwave listeners, the military, and utility radio services are also big users of UTC.

UTC is based on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Greenwich mean time was based upon the time at the zero degree meridian that crossed through Greenwich, England. GMT was first used by the Royal Navy in the 19th century.

UTC uses a 24-hour system of time notation. "1:00 a.m." in UTC is expressed as 0100, pronounced "zero one hundred." Fifteen minutes after 0100 is expressed as 0115; thirty-eight minutes after 0100 is 0138 (usually pronounced "zero one thirty-eight"). The time one minute after 0159 is 0200. The time one minute after 1259 is 1300 (pronounced "thirteen hundred"). This continues until 2359. One minute later is 0000 ("zero hundred"), and the start of a new UTC day.

 

[flecc]

Ever since my years in the army I've preferred the 24 hour clock time and personally often think in 24 hour clock terms. The common 24 hour clock convention is to use a full-stop between the hours and minutes, but otherwise identical to UTC.

I'm quite sure that 24 hour time would have been universally used and popular but for one thing. Placing 24 numbered interval markings on an analogue watch face or even clock face is near to impossible with legibility, and people generally prefer analogue watches and clocks to digital ones. Thus we are stuck with am and pm indefinitely.

 

[Old_Dave]

Which brings us to.

If we all have digital time pieces ...which way would be clockwise ?

 

[flecc]

Which brings us to.

If we all have digital time pieces ...which way would be clockwise ?

I think we'd have to use r/h or l/h rotation instead, with a convention as to the start point, top or bottom according to one's perspective.

Given that the irrationally based metric system has convinced much of the world, I'm surprised there's been no similar proposal for time, e.g. a 10 hour day of 100 minutes per hour. The watch and clock manufacturers would back it!

 

[neptune]

As I have said before, the hands of a clock rotate clockwise. Unless you are a clock.

 

[carpetbagger]

, e.g. a 10 hour day of 100 minutes per hour. The watch and clock manufacturers would back it!

100 minutes per hour....but only at lunch times

 

[flecc]

100 minutes per hour....but only at lunch times

And only 30 minutes in the last hour of the working day I suppose?

 

[Scimitar]

And only 30 minutes in the last hour of the working day I suppose?

Hardly worth going in on a Friday, then.