Military Time

One of the nice aspects of things here is that numbers are typically shown in both numeral form and in Chinese characters. This is nice because you can always find your flight or train number, pricing, time of day, etc. The only issue with the time is typically it is not shown in a.m. or p.m., but rather in military time. For Scott, this is not much of an issue, because, despite not having ever served his country, he did work for Safelite Auto Glass and Windshield Repair for a summer – and they used military time in their archaic computer system. For Annie, this has been a particularly difficult adjustment – prompting at least one call to Scott at work to find out what 15:00 meant.

We were quite puzzled though today at the pool when while reviewing the pool rules, we noticed the hours of operation: 13:00am – 19:00pm. Now, we are by no means military experts so we don’t know if we’re missing something here or what. It was our understanding that when using military time, one didn’t need am or pm because you aren’t repeating any of the times. Thus, if any of our veteran readers can shed some light on what time you think the pool actually opens, we’d welcome your comments. We’re pretty comfortable the pool closes at 7:00pm – however we’re a little perplexed as to what time it opens.