Author: Ed Murak
Date: 22:07:57 12/10/05
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On December 11, 2005 at 00:33:34, Ed Murak wrote: >On December 10, 2005 at 23:04:19, Norm Pollock wrote: > >>Midnight of the 11th, is between the 10th and the 11th. >>http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/noon.htm >But I still think the wording is ambiguous to many people, as in >http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?468872 >which is why timetables often avoid using "00:00". Just out of curiosity, I have checked elsewhere on the web, and I underline that it is ambiguous as to which day "midnight" belongs, when it is used this way. Wiki at- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight says: "Midnight marks both the start and the end of each day in civil time throughout the world. Since, therefore, two midnights are associated with each day, conventions are needed to distinguish between them. In the 24-hour time notation, the solution is very simple: "00:00" refers to the start and "24:00" to the end of a given date. In other words, "today at 24:00" is the same point in time as "tomorrow at 00:00". With the 12-hour time notation, which is still used in Armenia, Greece, and parts of the English-speaking and South American world, there is no simple and unambiguous notation for midnight. While it has become common practice for computers and digital clocks in these regions to display "12:00 a.m." for midnight, other notations such as "12 midnight" are also encountered. As these notations provide no clear and unambiguously way distinguish between midnight at the start and at the end of a day, it has become customary in these regions to move deadlines away from midnight, for example to "11:59 p.m." or "12:01 a.m." (23:59 or 00:01), to associate them unambiguously with a single date." That pretty much says it is ambiguous, as the site did not give a "00:00" or "24:00" but just used the word. So, the suspense mounts - and the time-zone riddle too.
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