24 hour system.

[Sisyphus]

I was 104.5 when taken into sickbay with heat exhaustion on my juniors (cheers Sgt Maj, you saved my bacon!).

Core temp was taken with a rectal thermometer, nowt like string and knots! :

Sticky

Damn reckless of you, suh. Those porkers can be dangerous. Sheep are safer and far more attractive.

Rectal thermometer, huh? Explain please! Aural thermometers seem to the thing of the moment. Er, that's AUral, not Oral!

[Tab]

Some was saying that there is two minutes difference between 23,59 hrs
and 00:01 hrs. May I ask what happened to the seconds, like 23:59.59seconds and 00:00.01 seconds.

[anglo-saxon]

Not wishing to appear picky, but it should actually be a colon between the "59" and the "59", not a ".", as in 23:59:59.

Bored? Yeah, you could say that!

[Sisyphus]

May I ask what happened to the seconds, like 23:59.59seconds and 00:00.01 seconds.

Tab

Damn the invention of digital watches! Or even watches with second hands. Seems we live life by the second these days. I guess in the general scheme of things the question doesn't matter except to quantum physicists. Oh, and 'A' type personalities!

Remember the days when Plymouth had a different 'time' than London because the sun rose and set at different times? Advent of the railways meant things had to be synchronized.

It's been downhill ever since.

[druadan]

It wasn't the seconds, I think I said does 2359 last 120 seconds instead of the normal 60 (or something like that). I assumed that if the military don't use 0000, then they don't use any of the seconds in that minute either ie 0000:01 etc