FullMetal*Panic!

When I saw it in the series, when Sousuke first discovers it, it's counting down from 900 second by second. So 900 seconds = 15 minutes. 9000 seconds might've made more sense, 2 1/2 hours, but it just struck me as weird when I first saw it.

Ok, during the first arc, Sousuke finds the bomb on the plane, which is scheduled to go off in about 15 minutes. Now, in that 15 minute timeframe, Sousuke manages to contact the TDD, tell them about the bomb and the situation, the TDD mobilizes its active personel, Mao and Kurtz arrive, they are bri...