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military time with Date::Calc Schmidty 06-09-2005
Posted by Schmidty on June 9, 2005, 1:09 am
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Hi...Does anyone know if you can convert standard 12 hour time (am/pm)
to military time (24 hours) with the Date::Calc module? I wrote a script
that would do it but really like to usability of Date::Calc. Could
this be rewritten into the module later on?

Schmidty


Posted by Peter Billam on June 10, 2005, 10:03 am
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> Hi...Does anyone know if you can convert standard 12 hour time (am/pm)
> to military time (24 hours) with the Date::Calc module? I wrote a script
> that would do it but really like to usability of Date::Calc. Could
> this be rewritten into the module later on?

Is it just the plain old civilian 24-hour clock that's intended ?
Nothing military about that, it's used everywhere in Europe, for
example.

I've heard that military time differs by forbidding the midnight
minute 00:00 and 24:00 because this has been known to cause confusion
about which day it is. So it goes straight from 23:59 to 00:01.
I'm not sure how that's done, in detail ...

Regards, Peter

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Posted by Schmidty on June 9, 2005, 7:23 pm
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Peter Billam wrote:
>
>>Hi...Does anyone know if you can convert standard 12 hour time (am/pm)
>>to military time (24 hours) with the Date::Calc module? I wrote a script
>>that would do it but really like to usability of Date::Calc. Could
>>this be rewritten into the module later on?
>
>
> Is it just the plain old civilian 24-hour clock that's intended ?
> Nothing military about that, it's used everywhere in Europe, for
> example.
>
> I've heard that military time differs by forbidding the midnight
> minute 00:00 and 24:00 because this has been known to cause confusion
> about which day it is. So it goes straight from 23:59 to 00:01.
> I'm not sure how that's done, in detail ...
>
> Regards, Peter
>
Yeah...it would be the standard 24 hour format (00:00:00 to 23:59:59). I
wrote some Perl code that easily differentiates between the two but I
was hoping the Date::Calc module might have a way of converting back and
forth or maybe there might be another module out there. I find it hard
to believe that they wouldn't include this...thanks.

Schmidty


Posted by John W. Krahn on June 10, 2005, 11:07 am
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Peter Billam wrote:
>
>>Hi...Does anyone know if you can convert standard 12 hour time (am/pm)
>>to military time (24 hours) with the Date::Calc module? I wrote a script
>>that would do it but really like to usability of Date::Calc. Could
>>this be rewritten into the module later on?
>
>
> Is it just the plain old civilian 24-hour clock that's intended ?
> Nothing military about that, it's used everywhere in Europe, for
> example.
>
> I've heard that military time differs by forbidding the midnight
> minute 00:00 and 24:00 because this has been known to cause confusion
> about which day it is. So it goes straight from 23:59 to 00:01.
> I'm not sure how that's done, in detail ...

Also military time is designated as Zulu Time and is always UTC, e.g. 23:16 Z
which is the same as 23:16 UTC (or 23:16 GMT.)


John
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