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The Seldom Killer:
That's the passing of time, I specified the passing of the meridian.
The Seldom Killer:
Also, we have a Chronometric Ball.
GarandMarine:
and irrelevancy as the British Empire slowly finishes it's slide into ruin and obscurity.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 03 Nov 2014, 21:13 ---That all made sense except for "is that 12pm noon or midnight?" 12pm is always noon, 12am is always midnight, and anyone who suggests otherwise is wrong.
--- End quote ---
Not according to the NIST, which simply lists 12pm and 12am as "ambiguous". Wrong or otherwise, I have frequently encountered people who use 12pm to mean midnight. IBM used to recommend, and might still do for all I know, that events should never be scheduled for noon or midnight to avoid these problems of ambiguous usage.
Using 12am for midnight makes no sense, since it suggests that the first hour of a day is actually the last hour of the day before. Neither does making midnight in the twenty-four hour clock 24:00, another strange habit I have encountered, which is apparently justified on the odd idea that there are two midnights in a day, something that could easily lead to the temporal equivalent of fencepost errors.
GMT is ambiguous, obsolete in technical contexts, and not synonymous with UTC, as GM points out.
Method of Madness:
Interesting, according to the NIST link both 00:00 and 24:00 are correct, with the former being midnight at the beginning of the day, the other midnight at the end of the day. So 00:00 on November 5th and 24:00 on November 4th are the same time...which makes no fucking sense, because if it's midnight, November 4th is over and it's November 5th, damn it.
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