Paul,
Oooops! I guess I didn't read the message correctly, and, I
misspelled your name. It is amazing how I keyed in on 2400 hrs and
ignored what you said about 0000. I'm going back in my cave.
73..de John/K4WJ
At 05:52 PM 9/9/2007, John/K4WJ wrote:
>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 <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net> 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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