Zero Dark Thirty

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Krylo

These two statements seem contradictory.

this was intentional, yes

[Locke cole]

The "Dark" seems redundant. If you're saying "Zero" for time, it's pretty much going to be midnight.

You know, it's bugged me for a while how we have midnight as 12 AM, coming right after 11 PM. Same hing with Noon being 12 PM right after 11 AM.

It would make more sense for Midnight to be 0 AM, and Noon to be 0 PM.

[Bells]

I think it's more about military time, i mean, like, 9pm is actually "2100" so, zero dark thirt is 0030 after dark... but i dunno, i'm just guessing.

That's why you should only count hours in 24hrs format, cause it's less dumb when 9 o'clock in morning and 21 o'clock is night!

[Flarecobra]

It's military slang for early in the morning.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

It's military slang for how much we hate arabs. That's all military slang (update as historically appropriate).

[Magus]

Zero Dark Thirty is 12:30 A.M. A military person on another forum says that in real life they actually pronounce the zero like a "o" as in "O Dark Thirty" but they changed it to the word Zero instead of the number 0 because people would read that as an O and they liked the sound of Zero Dark Thirty better and...anyway.

EDIT: Actually they said that NATO standards dictate that they say Zero Dark Thirty but actual soldiers are shitty at maintaining NATO standards and all of them say O Dark Thirty instead. Which I mean, it is one less syllable.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Hey Magus, nobody gives a shit you fascist fuck.

[Bells]

it's not Military exclusive though, when i was in control of the Heliport on the offshore Oil Rig i was working at, we had a specific vocabulary to make it crystal clear that every letter and every number was unique sounding and short in pronunciation. The letters are easy, you just use the international vocabulary for that, the numbers are a bit more unique though. The last thing you want if for people to act wrong cause your five sounds like a four over the radio or take too long or badly to explain that "JLU 4503 coming in at 1452, 4 pax off 7 pax in, No bags" i can't even imagine how much more complex must be to deal with stuff like that in combat or any sort of military situation...

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Professor Smarmiarty

Hey Magus, nobody gives a shit you fascist fuck.

I'm sorry I cannot hear you over all this awesome goose-stepping we are doing over here.

Originally Posted by Bells

it's not Military exclusive though, when i was in control of the Heliport on the offshore Oil Rig i was working at, we had a specific vocabulary to make it crystal clear that every letter and every number was unique sounding and short in pronunciation. The letters are easy, you just use the international vocabulary for that, the numbers are a bit more unique though. The last thing you want if for people to act wrong cause your five sounds like a four over the radio or take too long or badly to explain that "JLU 4503 coming in at 1452, 4 pax off 7 pax in, No bags" i can't even imagine how much more complex must be to deal with stuff like that in combat or any sort of military situation...

Hey Bells, nobody gives a shit you fascist fuck.

[Bells]

Originally Posted by Magus

Hey Bells, nobody gives a shit you fascist fuck.

How did you know...? Clever Magus... very clever...