: Re: What format should I use when beginning a chapter with the time and location of the events? What format should I use when beginning a chapter with the time and location of the events? I was

If you're doing a time stamp (i.e. no one is narrating the time, but each chapter is chronologically ordered but not in a linear way (i.e. flashbacks, or chapter 1 and chapter 2 starting at the same moment in time) or you are depicting actions happening in different parts of the world and time zones are involved, Military time is usually used to distinguish morning and afternoon times (Midnight is 0000 and each hour is +0100). In dialog, leading zeroes are stated so 0100 is "Zero-One-Hundred Hours" (There may be some people who say "Oh" instead of "Zero). 2 digit hours (1000-2300) are prononced "Ten-Hundred Hours". If the time includes minutes, all numbers numbers are pronounced in or as individual digits. 0543 is "Zero-Five-Four-Three". Although rarely seen in fiction, time zones have a single letter designation and are pronounce using the NATO Alphabet. The most likely to be seen is "Z" (Zulu) which is Greenwich Mean Time. Less likely "J" Juliette is the local time zone.

Typically these aren't favored as they don't give a good heads up to civvilain readers. Typically fiction will use either the three letter value (so the time in L.A. Would be noted to be time in P.S.T. or Pacific Standard Time. Or peg time to the a large city in the time Zone (E.S.T is also called New York City Time. Greenwich Mean Time is also London Time.

I highly suggest a format similar to that on "Young Justice" which actually time stamps all their scenes (One of the writers always has dates for events depicted in an episode in his previous works, but YJ put them up for the fans who knew this.). The best display of this is the opening scene of the very first season, which depicts four of the main characters and their respective mentors battling ice themed villains. If you pay attention to the sequence, It's all at the same time across multiple time zones (Specifically, EST, CST (Central Time), PST, and HST (Hawaii/Honolulu time).

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