Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”?

• towerful@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeh, it would probably be “oh six oh five” for us military time.
  They pronounce the leading 0.

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And with numbers in general, I think you only say the “and” if it’s “and one”. 605 would be “six hundred five”, I think.

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  • HamSwagwich@showeq.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Generally speaking US military time vernacular never uses the word “and” because it’s superfluous and confusing.

    The idea is to condense the information into the smallest transmissible unit possible while eliminating any ambiguity.

    “Oh six oh five” would be how you say it. The leading “oh” is to disambiguate a transmission dropout or interference with “sixteen.” It adds a checksum bit, if you will.

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