Reporting the time

[nq:1]When saying the time, is the following correct: (military style) 20:00 - twenty hundred hours[/nq]
Fine
[nq:1]20:00 - eight hundred hours[/nq]
This is wrong, eight hundred hours is 08:00, i.e. 8 a.m., not p.m.
[nq:1]11:30 - eleven thirty hours[/nq]
Fine
[nq:1](civilian style) 5:30 - half (past) five (on) Sunday morning 5:30 - five thirty (on) Sunday morning[/nq]
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Fabian,
In the British Royal Navy, in which I served for many years, the word "hours" is very rarely used. So your examples would be:

20:00 - "twenty hundred"
20:00 - "twenty hundred" again (not "eight"
11:30 - "eleven thirty"
08:35 would be "oh eight thirty five"
Incidentally, they would all be written without the colon (2000, 1130,
0835).
Hope that helps more

Alison filted:

I put that down to incomplete revision...but the usual reading is "oh eight hundred hours"..r

[nq:1]When saying the time, is the following correct: (military style) 20:00 - twenty hundred hours 20:00 - eight hundred hours 11:30 - eleven thirty hours[/nq]
In the strict interpretation, "hours" should be omitted. For example: "All hands on deck at "oh-eight-hundred." The second example in not correct and should be the same as the first. All your examples should be written without colons (

[nq:1]When saying the time, is the following correct: (military style) 20:00 - twenty hundred hours 20:00 - eight hundred hours ... (on) Sunday morning (delete past for casual UK usage) (delete on for US usage) It's for a program I'm writing.[/nq]
Others have answered the questions you asked. But, have you considered, in addition, that there is "civilian" use of the "military" style, i.e., put

[nq:2]When saying the time, is the following correct: (military style) 20:00 - twenty hundred hours 20:00 - eight hundred hours 11:30 - eleven thirty hours[/nq]
[nq:1]In the strict interpretation, "hours" should be omitted. For example: "All hands on deck at "oh-eight-hundred."[/nq]
Do any US Navy vets use that so-British "oh" for phone numbers too, out of habit? Or use it anywhere where o

[nq:2]In the strict interpretation, "hours" should be omitted. For example: "All hands on deck at "oh-eight-hundred."[/nq]
[nq:1]Do any US Navy vets use that so-British "oh" for phone numbers too, out of habit? Or use it anywhere where other Americans would use "zero", "ought", etc. (Serious question.)[/nq]
Huh? Virtually all Americans would read a phone number like "205-0130" as "two oh f

[nq:1]Fabian, In the British Royal Navy, in which I served for many years, the word "hours" is very rarely used. So your examples would be: 20:00 - "twenty hundred" 20:00 - "twenty hundred" again (not "eight" 11:30 - "eleven thirty"[/nq]
Has the Royal Navy dropped those charming 'bells' that have enilened so many of my online discussions? What about that watching the dog thingy?
John Dean

[nq:1]What about that watching the dog thingy?[/nq]
It's been curtailed.

John Varela
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[nq:1]Has the Royal Navy dropped those charming 'bells' that have enilened so many of my online discussions? What about that watching the dog thingy?[/nq]
Bells no longer necessary. You just count the number of times the dog salivates.

Peter Moylan (Email Removed) http://eepjm.