It's really simple. 2400 does not exist, it's 0000. So, you can have 2359 and
59 seconds, then one second later it's 0000. If youwant it finer than that, you
can have 2359 and 59.99 seconds. One one-hundredth of a second later it's 0000.
Get the idea? I can't imagine coordinating or doing any QSLing without it. As a
ham since 1964, it's UTC (well, it used to be GMT) for me
73
Dave
WA3MKB
-------------- Original message --------------
From: John/K4WJ <k4wj@bellsouth.net>
> Pual,
>
> 0000 begins the new day. It is like 12:00 a.m. (midnight). It is the
> time between 2359 and 0001. :-) How did the military teach you to
> treat the time between 2359 and 0001? Did they pretend it didn't exist?
>
> It is amazing how many OTs still don't use UTC. I mean some ex
> military guys that have been hams since the 50s.
>
> BTW, I was a radio operator in the Navy back in the early 60s.
>
> 73..de John/K4WJ
>
>
> At 05:33 PM 9/9/2007, you wrote:
> >What amuses me is when some hams use 2400 hrs... No such thing IMO.
> >There is 2359 and then 0000 hrs. At least that is what I learned in the
> >Army.
> >
> >Paul Gates, KD3JF
> >
> >Ken Brown wrote:
> > > I dunno -- UTC seems so easy to me - just get it from WWV - no
> > > calculations - no looking up is daylight savings there , do they have
> > > daylight savings , no plus or minus an hour etc etc .
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >UTC is the standard way of expressing time of day by all radio operators
> >who are communicating between different time zones. All radio operators
> >should know the number of hours difference between their own local time
> >and UTC. This is easy to do, and when you know your own offset from UTC
> >there is no need to know what the offset is in other locations, provided
> >that UTC time is used for published radio schedules. Using this long
> >established standardized system is simple, effective and works for
> >everybody in all time zones. Older ARRL publications even state that
> >this is the correct and sensible way to do it. It requires less space to
> >print a schedule this way too, even if along with the schedule offsets
> >for a few time zones are printed for new operators who do net yet know
> >their UTC offset. It is truly bizarre that ARRL refuses to use the time
> >honored standard.
> >
> >DE N6KB
>
> 73..de John/K4WJ
> ex K8PXG 06/18/59 to 02/12/97
> K8WJ 02/12/97 to 04/08/97
>
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