If you’ve ever heard someone say a meeting is at 1630 and then felt your brain do a small cartwheel, you have met the 24-hour clock. In the United States, we mostly live by the 12-hour clock, with a.m ...

Different time formats might seem baffling at first, but the 12-hour and 24-hour clocks each tell fascinating stories about how we've measured our days throughout history. The familiar 12-hour system, ...

Armies started using the 24-hour method of timekeeping as standard military time because, much like police, fire, and medical departments, every branch of the armed services is in continuous operation ...

It's going to be a busy weekend for Albert T. "Stretch" Hopper of 77 McArthur St., a man who works with his hands. Stretch is the clock man at General Electric Co.'s transformer plants in Pittsfield.