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

"Nathan" == Nathan Sanders <nsanders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


Nathan> I do something similar for announced deadlines for
Nathan> homework assignments (usually 11:59pm, because I find that
Nathan> a bit more intuitive than 12:01am), not only to
Nathan> disambiguate noon versus midnight, but also to
Nathan> disambiguate the due date for midnight deadlines ("May 5th
Nathan> at midnight"

That's ambiguous.

Nathan> could be reasonably read as either the midnight between
Nathan> the 4th and 5th

That's 2007-05-05T00:00:00 (== 2007-05-04T24:00:00)


Nathan> or the one between the 5th and 6th).

That's 2007-05-05T24:00:00 (== 2007-05-06T00:00:00)


So, using the 00:00:00 -- 24:00:00 notation can make things clear.


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