Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Matthew Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Check for military time Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:07:28 -0400 Organization: Ahungry (http://ahungry.com) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <87y4euibhb.fsf@ahungry.com> References: <%kSVx.210845$HZ6.47102@fx12.iad> <62854723.f7DkCZnGup@PointedEars.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7c986cd4736462de309a749b207746fe"; logging-data="30563"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX183/h1G4Vq7433NG/YB9V47" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2xJyU1jdEmL1haCrevrR5EXr+HY= sha1:r20ua1/D0fKMSMcLvN0aFvuWe1I= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:15751 Jerry Stuckle writes: > On 10/22/2015 5:08 PM, Thomas 'Pointed Head' Lahn wrote: >> Peter H. Coffin wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:43:58 -0400, Lew Pitcher wrote: >>>> But, in the military clock, there are 25 hours (00 through 24) and 60 >>>> minutes per hour (00 through 59). Thus, in 2600 test cases, ranging >>>> sequentially from 0000 through 2599, there should be 25x60 successes 25 >>>> hours, with 60 values inside of the 00-59 range). That means 1500 >>>> successes in 2600 test cases. >>> >>> I am pretty sure that this is not the case. I have never seen "24:xx". >> >> I have never been in the military, and hopefully never will be, but I find >> it reasonable that they would adopt the timekeeping standard of having days >> from 00:00:00.000 to 24:00:00.000 inclusive. >> > > How fortunate for the military. It's considered a science vessel, despite a full array of armaments. -- Matthew Carter (m@ahungry.com) http://ahungry.com