8.398 times 10-6 in standard notation = 0.000008398
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5.5 × 10-1This is not a number you would normally write in standard form. As it is very short. Usually numbers are written in standard form to save time.
Scientific notation helps scientists because if they use numbers with 50, 100, or even 500 digits, they don't have to write all the digits, which could take 5 minutes. Instead, they just write scientific notation, which saves a lot of time and space that could be needed later.
If you are asking how to write time in the 24 hour standard or military time it is very easy. If you want to write the time as eight in the morning it would be 0800 or if you want to write one in the afternoon it would be 1300.
The only time it would be 'necessary' would be because someone asked you to. But the practicality of scientific notation is that it is sometimes a quicker way to write numbers. E.g. It is easier to write 10 000 000 as 1.0 x 107.