Nurses Humor
Published Aug 20, 2002
my husband frequently gets annoyed with me. He looks over to see what time my watch has and say "This damn military time is a crock!" Why can't we tell time like normal people he wants to know?
What does he mean by normal time?
bellehill, RN
566 Posts
Your guess is as good as mine, all my watches have 24hours on them. I hope he wasn't suggesting that we are not normal?!?!:wink2:
misti_z
375 Posts
I think he is saying that we are NOT normal.
ptnurse
185 Posts
When I started nursing the military time drove me crazy too. Then someone taught me an easy method to figure out how to use it. Early a.m. hours are easy 0100 is 1 a.m. etc until you get to 12noon. Then if you want to know what time say 6 p.m. is you add 12 noon plus 6 p.m. to get 18 or 1800 hours. 12 noon plus 10 p.m. equals 22 or 2200 hours. You get the idea. But for what it is worth, I am with your hubby. Military time is strange, but it helped me a lot when I understood how to work it
mattcastens
255 Posts
You might point out to him that in most of the world 24-hour time is the official standard. All official times for trains, planes, buses and media are listed on the 24-hour clock.
Of course, the easy-to-understand metic system is the world standard, too, and that's never stopped the good ol' U-S-of-A.
At least we don't weigh ourselves in Stone...
DJrn
12 Posts
NORMAL!!!??? I for one am not normal. And have no desire to be normal. Its too difficult.
sharann, BSN, RN
1,758 Posts
Originally posted by DJrn NORMAL!!!??? I for one am not normal. And have no desire to be normal. Its too difficult.
Mkue
1,827 Posts
Originally posted by ptnurse When I started nursing the military time drove me crazy too. Then someone taught me an easy method to figure out how to use it. Early a.m. hours are easy 0100 is 1 a.m. etc until you get to 12noon. Then if you want to know what time say 6 p.m. is you add 12 noon plus 6 p.m. to get 18 or 1800 hours. 12 noon plus 10 p.m. equals 22 or 2200 hours. You get the idea. But for what it is worth, I am with your hubby. Military time is strange, but it helped me a lot when I understood how to work it
Hey, thanks ptnurse, I will remember that method !
live4today, RN
5,099 Posts
I agree wholeheartedly with you, DJrn. The last thing I am TODAY ESPECIALLY.........is NORMAL! :rotfl:
kathkrn
35 Posts
My boyfriend, parents and friends who were unfamiliar with the 24 hour clock, are now telling time the normal way. I can only tell time this way. I get confused when I wake up without my 24-hr watch within close view (I'm near-sighted). Especially when it's sunny etc. at 0700 and 1900!
Jrob32
1 Post
In nursing school I had to answer a question in military time and I put 2040 hrs. I have always done it like this. The instructor marked it incorrect and said I should have left off hrs. Is this true for medical professionals?
sairin8
98 Posts
I do it both with and without the "hrs", depending on which would make it more clear