Re: Do you think 12:00pm is noon or midnight?

Seán O'Leathlóbhair wrote:
Does 12:00 necessarily mean the period 12:00:00 to 12:00:59.999...
rather than 11:59:30 to 12:00:29.999...? In other words, does a time
in whole minutes necessarily represent a truncation rather than a
rounding of the true time?

Suppose it's 2:04 or so, and you have a digital clock reading hours and minutes that you want to synch with a source that shows the time in seconds. I think most people would try to arrange it so that 2:06 on the clock kicks in when the source shows 12:06:00 rather than when it shows 12:05:30.
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  • Re: Do you think 12:00pm is noon or midnight?
    ... in whole minutes necessarily represent a truncation rather than a ... rounding of the true time? ... minutes that you want to synch with a source that shows the time in ... Hey, rounding is more PC. ...
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  • Re: Do you think 12:00pm is noon or midnight?
    ... in whole minutes necessarily represent a truncation rather than a ... rounding of the true time? ... and you have a digital clock reading hours and ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Do you think 12:00pm is noon or midnight?
    ... in whole minutes necessarily represent a truncation rather than a ... rounding of the true time? ... clock kicks in when the source shows 12:06:00 rather than when it shows ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Do you think 12:00pm is noon or midnight?
    ... in whole minutes necessarily represent a truncation rather than a ... rounding of the true time? ... clock kicks in when the source shows 12:06:00 rather than when it shows ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Do you think 12:00pm is noon or midnight?
    ... rounding of the true time? ... minutes that you want to synch with a source that shows the time in ... clock kicks in when the source shows 12:06:00 rather than when it shows ...
    (sci.lang)