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  • Great link, and a more specific answer than the one on IMDb. Thanks! Commented Dec 23, 2012 at 11:11
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    I was in the military, and I never heard "zero dark thirty" used to refer specifically to 0030. It's slang for any obscenely early time in the morning. Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 6:51
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    Just to clarify: I do think that this is the correct answer, in the sense that it directly relays what Bigelow meant with the title. However, I still believe that she herself got mixed up about the meaning of the term "zero dark thirty." By the way, here is another source—an unofficial dictionary for Marines written by a former Marine; 0 Dark 30 is the first entry. He even indicates in a note that the term was used (with the meaning that I'm familiar with) as early as the 1960s, when he served. Commented Jan 2, 2013 at 3:52