24 Hour Time
It's time I write a little rhyme
About a way to tell the time
That's "24 hour time" I mean
In which the times throughout the day
Are said in quite a different way
And look unlike the way they're often seen
Midnight for example
Should give you rather ample
Proof of this, it's not said with a "twelve"
Instead it's represented
By four zeros presented
And "Zero hundred hours" you would mouth!
One a.m. is written so:
"Zero one then two zeros"
And two a.m. "O Two Zero Zero"
Three a.m. is Zero Three
Then two more zero's so you see
Up to twenty four the pattern goes
The strange thing is there's no p.m.
For after what is called a.m.
You just keep counting up and up you see
One pm becomes thirteen
Hundred hours then fourteen
Hundred where two pm used to be
And finally we should explore
The last two digits of the four
Which are the minutes of the given hour
So if I said Nineteen O two
The time that I have said to you
Is two past seven in 24 hour
Some examples now I'll leave
So you can keep them up your sleeve
For future use should you feel the need
If dinner time's at six twenty
All you'd have to say to me
Is "Eighteen Twenty's when we'll have a feed!"
Two thirty p.m. is read
Fourteen three zero instead
Thirteen fifty just means One Fifty
Twenty thirty basically
Means the same as Eight Thirty
While Fifteen fifty simply means three fifty!
By Kerin Gedge
Copyright 2014
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