Guest guest Posted June 12, 2004 Report Share Posted June 12, 2004 Hey Sue, >>The Colonel replied, " I think it was around 1950 or so. " >> >> " Jeez, " said the young gal .. " you must be a lot older than you look. >>But still, that's a long time to go without sex! " >> >> " Not really, " replied the Colonel .. its not quite 2045 yet. " ;-) > > Sure liked this one! do like mil time. > Sue Glad you did .. and I like the 24 hour clock too .. its the ONLY efficient system .. as is also the case with metrics. I really get confused and have to think on it sometimes when dealing with AM and PM and sometimes I just say half past midnight or so. ;-) The 24 hour clock is used much in Europe .. and Russia .. and in some African countries I have served in. There can be no mistakes when it is used. This also goes for using numbers for dates .. which I always prohibited subordinates to use .. and was hard to make my employees in Maryland remember. Why is that confusing? Because some countries write day, month, year .. and some write month, day, year .. means .. 12-9-03 and 12-09-03 can mean 12 Sep 03 or Dec 9, 03 .. but using the military system of day, abbreviated month and year is efficient. There can only be ONE 12 Sep 03. The military formalized such things because they're universally used by other military forces .. and we don't understand most civilians in the second place. ;-) Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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