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Actually .. in military 24 hour time format ... midnight does not exist for
exactly that reason, what day is it
Time jumps from 235959 to 000001
cheers ,
John

At 15:20 19/02/2002 -0400, Trevor Kenchington wrote:
>Lu,
>
> > Hey, while we're at it, why don't we debate 0000 vs 2400?
>
>That's a matter of convention. Subject to correction by the
>better-informed, I think the convention is 0000.
>
> > And, for a more esoteric question, does midnight belong to the earlier or
> > later of the days it separates?
>
>Midnight is instantaneous and so an infinitely-thin line in time,
>separating the two days but belonging to neither -- or so it would seem
>to me. However, if you designate it 0000, then it must be 0000 of the
>following day. If it were otherwise, 0000 would occur 23 hours and 59
>minutes after 0001 of the same calendar day, which wouldn't make any sense.
>
> > But, wait, there's more!  Is noon 12AM or 12PM?  What about midnight?
>
>Noon cannot be "ante-meridien" nor "post-meridien" since it is
>"meridien" itself. (Hope I have the Latin spelling right. High school
>was very long ago!) Hence it must be "12 noon", not "12am" nor "12pm".
>But if you really want to give it one designation or the other, it would
>have to be "12am" since it follows one minute after 11.59am.
>
> > All but the first are very important to me in programming my VCR when I
> > want to record a program starting at midnight.
>
>Well for _that_ you don't need the correct definitions, just whatever
>mixed up ones the software designers used! As with entering deviation in
>some brands of GPS, you just need to know enough to be able to work out
>the answer you want and then experiment until you can get the equipment
>to give you the same result.
>
> > I just program the damn
> > thing to start at 12:01 AM, on that there is at least universal agreement
> > as to time and day. ;-)
>
>I set mine to 2345 and so allow for errors in clock settings -- whether
>in my VCR or the TV station's machinery. It's not elegant but it works
>for me.
>
>
>Trevor Kenchington
>
>
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