How was military time invented

military time, also referred to as 24-hour clock time, is often used in the military for precise and consistent time tracking across geographically separated outposts. But how did military time come to be so widely used?

To understand the origins of military time, it is necessary to consider different systems of tracking time. For example, the traditional system of telling time is based on 12 hours in a day and relies on a.m. and p.m. markers to represent morning (a.m.) and evening (p.m.) hours respectively. This system was likely adopted from ancient Sumerian civilizations who organized days into two 12-hour periods based on sunrise and sunset timing each day.

On the other hand, for centuries the Babylonians were tracking their days with a system that divided days into 24 equal hours with no presumption made by daylight changes or seasonal patterns. This system was adopted by various ancient Mediterranean societies like the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians as it became popularized by trade routes across areas while passing through multiple civilizations during its development over centuries of adaptation in various societies until it formed the basis of what we now call "military time" (24-hour clock).

It wasn't until World War I that military leaders began using this more specific method of tracking time - instead of relying on local times when coordinating communication between soldiers in different regions - resulting in more precise coordination amongst allied troops across diverse territories and distant war zones. This precision helped to ensure that operations were operating on precisely calculated timetables which increased efficiency during wartime operations resulting in greater success for allied forces including reduced casualties due to improved coordination amongst combat forces compared to earlier conflicts with heavily manual timelines based solely on local times which could easily lead to miscommunication between military personnel spread across thousands of miles with limited transportation options in comparison to modern technology available today for near instant global communication availability found with modernised digital means such as smartphone apps and real-time satellite feeds available at our fingertips today compared to manual Morse code signalling devices or higher bandwidth radio or cell phone options used during WWI era turn-of-the century deployments requiring coordination between vastly disparate forces often located across economies' boundaries and behind enemy lines alike..