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The Greenwich Mean Time website http://greenwichmeantime.com/info/noon.htm
says:
"To avoid confusion timetables, when scheduling around midnight, prefer to
use either 23:59 or 00:01 to avoid confusion as to which day is being
referred to."
That's the one clear thing about this thread. If someone is insistent that
there is a 24:00, this bit of information must be made clear to those who
rely upon this person's technical documents. Our company had a project
involving monitoring of data on an hourly average. There was a lot of
back-and-forth over the hours of a day, especially the first and last --
when do they start/stop, what to call them. So this stuff actually matters.
Personally, geyser researchers in Yellowstone have always used a 24-hour
clock. Midnight is 00:00. there is no 24:00 -- at least, not in the
logbooks at Old Faithful. And the designation of 00:00 as midnight is
discussed in the logbook, so the standard is documented.
24:00 seems counter-intuitive to me, for the reasons expressed by Stephen
McDermott.
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Windsor Technologies, Inc.
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Lafayette, Colorado 80026
Phone: 303-926-1982
FAX: 303-926-1510
E-mail: paul -dot- strasser -at- windsor-tech -dot- com
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