Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
had something like 83 hours and 15 minutes , I
had to figure out that that was six times around
the clock and another 11 hours and another 15
minutes .
Obviously,not the best way in the world
to do it , but the only way that was practical from
the standpoint of the flight plan.
Well, to tell you the truth, Jim, I feel strong
enough about that
elapsed time that I would be
happy to go with that type of a system of timing,
and just go ahead on elapsed t i me all the way and
use twelve-hour incements.
They would call up
your time and elapsed time and use your own clock
to keep track of it .
I felt it was simple enough
also to do it in this manner.
But I feel that
this is ini'erior to having a good elapsed timer
and ten-hour digital incements.
I tell you I hate to see us get involved in some!..
thing where you've gpt a clock thats so difficult
to read,where you've got to add up twelves and-­
Now you're on the other side of the fence now!
No, I think that we ought to do things like retro­
fire time a.~d that' sort of
thing
in a
standard time that you can use-:.. something like GMT.