24-hour Watches
 

Does anyone know where you can buy a cheap watch that keeps "military" time? Thanks.

I have a Timex that will do that. Bought it at a Walgreen's drug store.

Vera

Thanks, Vera. I'll look there.

Just about any digital watch these days has some sort of setting you can make to switch between 12-hour and 24-hour clocks. With an analog watch, the style is obvious determined by the markings on the watch face and the hands.

I thought I remembered seeing watches where the dials took 24 hours to go around instead of 12, rather than repeating the cycle with a second set of numbers.
Here's one such watch:

http://tinyurl.com/zk3pw

I googled and found tons of hits of watches you can buy on line -- all 24 hour ones.

I'm confused - can;t you tell if it's 10 in the morning or 10 at night by looking out the window? Do you often lose track of half days (I did once know someone who did - but he had substance problems).

I own a Timex, cheap and very reliable. Available almost everywhere. Sometimes the ones with the 24 hour markings are somewhat harder to find. Sears in my city has them.

nytraveler -

Maybe OP wants to keep track of "home" time? I could never do that from Taiwan - especially with the date change. And I'm fairly bright.

If you want to keep track of time back home a much better solution would be to get a watch w/ two dials.

They are everywhere from timex/casio cheap to high end expensive.

I assumed the watch was for somebody who didn't want to have to translate from the 24-hour clock, e.g., from 18 hours to 6 pm.

KT - I agree (for undertanding train schedules etc.). My response was to robespierre about not being able to keep track of multiple time zones.

Sorry, Janis, my response wasn't to you, but to nytraveler and Robespierre. A lot of wire-crossing today--I should have been more specific.

Me too :)

Yes, my Rolex World Time has two 24-hour dials. The face is an earth globe with a clock face in each hemisphere. I got it at the night market in Taipei for $33.

Robespierre, for NYers like me, it's relatively easy to keep track of time in Taiwan as it's a 12 hour time difference for 6 months (they don't observe daylight savings time). No need to change my watch, except for the date thingy.

As for keeping military time, I just add 12 to whatever time I have on my watch. I used to be in radio where we kept military time on our logs, and that's how we all did it.

Methinks the OP is going to Europe and just wants to make sure she doesn't miss the train, etc. :D

Thanks everyone! No substance abuse problems here, lol, but I do have a form of dyslexia that trips me up telling time sometimes. So, KT is exactly right, I don't want to have to translate from the 24-hour clock, e.g., from 18 hours to 6 pm.

You could make yourself a little laminated chart, similar to what people do for currency conversion.

Thanks, Suze; I've actually already done that, and I made copies for family members, too. It has 3 columns: Rome time military-style; Rome time US style; and the local time for where I live.

Oh...I forgot to mention, I also did a currency conversion chart, and I put that back-to-back with the time chart, and I laminated them together...credit card size.

I also reduced our passports, made copies, and laminated the copies too.

Sounds like you're good to go! Unless you are calling home, I gently suggest that you try not to keep looking at the column that shows "local time where you live"... it only leads to disorientation and exaggerates jet lag (i used to wear two watches and leave one on my home time, my european host made me take it off!)