How did military time start

Have you ever thought about how military time started? Military time, or 24-hour clock, is a way to tell time that is used by the armed forces and by people who work in transportation and other sectors. It is also sometimes known as "Universal Coordinated Time" (UTC).

The idea of a 24-hour clock has been around since the early days of civilization. The ancient Egyptians and Chinese both divided their day into 12 segments - sunrise, noon, sunset, twilight - that lasted two hours each. From this ancient tradition comes our modern system of military time.

In the early 1800s, the French developed a system of timekeeping for military use that divided each hour into 100 parts. This system was adopted by many European countries and eventually became the official timekeeping standard for all of Europe.

The US also developed its own military time system during World War I when it was found to be important to have a unified, standardized way to tell time among different platoons and armies traveling across various regions and geographies. In this early system there were no seconds or minutes; instead each hour was divided into 1/100th increments starting with 0100 (1 a.m.) through 2400 (midnight). The staggered times allowed for more accurate coordination between different units on different borders far away from each other.

Today most governments use UTC as their official universal timekeeping standard which is based off of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Military personnel are l taught UTC to help better coordinate with troops in different regions who might be using different standards or variations on local times. This standardized method can also avoid confusion when talking in large groups due to the multiple languages spoken within certain militaries around the globe including NATO countries – another example of how using a single system benefits multilingual teams operating in multiple countries around the world in coordinating maneuvers according to secure strategy execution goals set by higher-ranking officers or politicians making command decisions at any given period of operations any day at any place where orders must be carried out together efficiently with every platoon working flawlessly .