RE: 24-hour clock

["Darren Barefoot" <darren -dot- barefoot -at- capeclear -dot- com>]

Well, speaking from a country that uses the 24-hour clock, when it's
midnight on my clock radio, it displays 0:00. One minute after mindight
is 0:01, etc. The standard way to express the end of Sunday has, to me,
always been "0:00" on Monday. Thanks. DB.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-techwr-l-65243 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com 
> [mailto:bounce-techwr-l-65243 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com] On Behalf Of 
> Dick Margulis
> Sent: 24 January 2002 11:49
> To: TECHWR-L
> Cc: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: 24-hour clock
> 
> 
> Many American contracts and laws (and possibly British as well, but I 
> don't know) specify 12:01 AM on a given date as a beginning or ending 
> point for just this reason. With software that's problematic, 
> because on 
> computers the day ticks over pretty much right on the dot of midnight 
> (give or take a nanosecond or so). Nonetheless, I've never seen 0:00 
> used to represent a clock time. I'd suggest Sunday 24h00 to Sunday 
> 24h00. (Based on responses to a recent question I posted, I 
> think 24h00 
> is preferred in civilian usage to 24:00 or 2400).
> 
> CHAI-ELSHOLZ Raeleen wrote:
> 


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