r/Firefighting • u/OwnMountain703 • 3d ago

Volunteer / Combination / Paid on Call What’s the history/reason departments chose Tuesday at 19:00

I’ve noticed that a lot of fire departments, including my own, hold training on Tuesdays at 19:00. Obviously not every hall follows this schedule, but it seems like a pretty common trend. Does anyone know the history or reasoning behind Tuesday evenings being the ‘standard’ practice night, or how that tradition got started.

This might be a stupid question and I apologize if it is, just one of my weekly shower thoughts I suppose.

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 3d ago

Wikipedia literally uses the hour minute separation. 

Syntactical-descriptive colons may separate the numbers indicating hours, minutes, and seconds in abbreviated measures of time. “The concert begins at 21:45. The rocket launched at 09:15:05.”

Because it is the standard delimiter that is used to indicate separation. It is used between minutes and seconds and ask.

Traditionally the British would use a full stop. What we call a period. 

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u/Strict-Canary-4175 3d ago

Girl I do not care. That isn’t how it’s used in the fire service. Full stop. Like the British.

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 3d ago

Fire service where? Because I’ve literally never seen it written that way, anywhere in the United States, and it is not how the US military/NATO write time, because it is lacking the ymd & time zone abbreviation at the back (generally defaulted to Zulu time.

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u/Strict-Canary-4175 3d ago

NO WHERE? It’s NO WHERE in the US? lol okay.