Metric Time

[MrFryMoto]

i'm onto something...

and the clock i made for it  drives my coworkers nutty...

[SacDuc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time#Alternative_units

[Grampa]

pm knight for a good deal on a clock   

[MendoDave]

i'm onto something...

and the clock i made for it  drives my coworkers nutty...

Can you elaborate?

[PizzaMonster]

It may not be metric time but it sure did confuse me.  My father-in-law was an ex-merchant marine and he had an old ship's bell clock on the wall.  At 4:00 pm it would chime 8 times.  Then at 4:30 it would chime twice.  I'd wait around to see what it would do at 5:00 pm and it would chime twice!   

I never did figure it out until I found out what a ship's bell clock was all about.

http://bellclocks.com/shipsbellhistory.html

[MrFryMoto]

[NAKID]

I had this in my old office, I loved people's reaction to it...

[CraigD426]

Those 24hr clocks are cool, I remember seeing those when my dad was in the Marines, he would always say 1700 for 5 o'clock and stuff, he also used to say head, hatch, deck, bulkhead, passage, and he was a pilot.

[NAKID]

Yup, I still say all of those things.

Navy Corpsman for 14+ years now...

[CraigD426]

Good deal Nakid, I was gonna join the Navy outta HS but became a fireman instead. Have you been stationed anywhere good?

[jclin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_units#Daily_units

[NAKID]

Best duty station so far has been on an Aircraft Carrier out of San Diego. Been to a few different countries. Austalia was the most fun...

[teddy037.2]

no clocks for stardates?

poo.