White House photographer Pete Souza captures the president right before he goes onstage to deliver his Afghanistan speech on Tuesday night. Given all the conversation about the timing of the troop escalation, the timetable for withdrawal, etc., I find the digital display of military time especially apt.
image credit: Pete Souza, West Point, NY, 12.1.09; White House Flickr photostream
OK, maybe it's a pet peeve of mine, but it's NOT "military" time. It's simply a 24 hour clock. Because we have, you know, 24 hours in a day. We could just as well call it metric time since just about everywhere else in the world except us (by us, of course, I mean US) uses it for just about everything. And it goes without saying that the engineer in me loves the precision of not dealing with, "is that A.M. or P.M.?"
Posted by: KWWT | 07 December 2009 at 03:41 AM
You're so right - NOT military time to the rest of the world (just like the rest of the world lives just fine with the metric system...). But how many U.S. universities have 24-hour clocks?
Posted by: caraf | 08 December 2009 at 08:53 AM