000 HOURS
Sir,- Your answer to your correspondent who questioned the present method of announcing the time was illuminating. One might ask what is the reason the Army wish to familiarise us with their method of announcing it. Are we to be brought under the Army-as in Japan? If we are to-have the 24-hour clock (and there is something to be said. for it), why can we not have it done sensibly as in Britain, Europe, and U.S,A.? If the time is 1945, why can this not be given as "nineteen forty-five hours," instead of the pedantic and meaningless "one nine four five hours"? Every night we hear it decently done from London when 1100 hours is announced as "eleven hours," instead of the absurd New Zealand Army way-‘"one one oh oh hours."
F.
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 200, 22 April 1943, Page 3
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