HOW DID MILITARY TIME ORIGINATE?

Question

HOW DID MILITARY TIME BECOME USED AND HOW WAS IT SELECTED

Answer 1

It's not military time. It's a 24-hour clock. And it is used by every nation on the planet except for the U.S. We began using it in our armed forces when we began to send those forces outside of our own nation. We also began to peg that use on Greenwich Mean Time to avoid confusion in messages, no matter where on the planet those messages were generated. The same fixing of time zone and the use of the 24 hour clock is used by international short wave radio broadcasters. In their case, however, it is called Coordinated Universal Time.  

Answer 2

It's only "military time" in the US/Canada.  In Europe and Asia, typically 24 hour time is used for schedules and timetables.

The key is ensure there's zero confusion about AM and PM.  On a related note, Greenwich Mean Time AKA "Zulu Time" is used for the same reason-everyone's on the same clock.

Answer 3

less likely to have an misunderstandings as to whether the time someone is referring to is in the AM or PM

Answer 4

The 24 hour clock is used worldwide. It's used by the military because it's superior to the 12 hour clock.

Answer 5

It's been a long time since I worked for Boeing Aircraft, and used "The World Clock"...or better known as "Military Time". but I'll try.

The Answer above is correct, that our US military didn't start using it until the US left domestic shores to go abroad and help other nations...then it became expedient to use it---and it became known .. in the U.S. as "Military Time".

This is what I recall to answer your question:

THE WAY YOU ARRIVE AT THE "MINUSES" WAS FOR the time difference from Greenwich (Zulu Time) to reach where you are, by TimeZones...Basically, the world is made up of 24 time zones...& each is approximately 1,000 miles wide---each zone has it's own "minus" (time),  If you're 8,000 miles from Greenwich (that's prounounced "Grenich")....then you are 8 hours BEHIND Greenwich Time. The "minuses" you see on yur email (PDT -8 Hrs) refers to Pacific Daylite Time MINUS 8 hours (from Greenwich, England)---mostly known as "Zulu" time. (oops I said that already).   There's more to it, but this is all I can remember.

This is a riddle sort of...isn't it? (oops again...that's a question!)

Answer 6

"Military time" is European standard time measuring.

Having a 24hr clock is more efficient since it does not

leave any space for misunderstandings.

Ie: 1700 is without any doubt. 5 can be pm or am.

It's the same with metrics in the military. They are

used for basically two reasons. NATO STANGs and

being the better system because of it's scaling factor.

Answer 7

It's not exclusive to the military, it's the normal method of telling time for most foreign countries (kind of like everyone else has metric and we have standard). The US military adopted it to avoid confusion when communicating with foreign nations. It's easier to adapt to their system all the time, then have to "translate" the time.