Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: John Hall Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Windows 32-bit Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:46:51 +0000 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <87o7fqepj9.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <3R7n9hBg6cWlFwYE@jhall_nospamxx.co.uk> <875y1xe7su.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Reply-To: John Hall Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed X-Trace: individual.net 0QEYJPQmEQC4Eop06hzOJwHEzmK6Q6VOVYCFdUI3uVxF5iLQ79 X-Orig-Path: jhall.co.uk!john_nospam Cancel-Lock: sha1:q8ZHYx+tufRbpSL/hESOQvV13pQ= sha256:CHKMz/DC8OpsJu2ArV9OFqP5uBBFxtQCAzUWcQXHoBg= User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M (<7nTUhTBzFYMUSV862C0PH+o4J1>) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.ms-windows.misc:671 alt.comp.os.windows-xp:7834 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:161340 In message <875y1xe7su.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>, Keith Thompson writes >The choice of whether 12am is midnight and 12pm is noon or vice versa >is fundamentally arbitrary. That choice has been made. There are >probably a number of official standards that address this (I'm too lazy >to look up any of them), and I believe they consistently say that 12am >is midnight and 12pm is noon. > >I offer a rationale for that choice. All times from 12:00:00 to >12:59:59 are either all AM, or all PM. The transition from 11:NN:NN to >12:NN:NN happens at the same time as the transition from AM to PM or >vice versa. That makes more sense to me than having 12:00:00 AM >immediately followed by 12:00:01 PM. > >If you still think it's ambiguous, treat my suggestion as a mnenomic. >The issue is settled, and the convention isn't going to change. Thanks. Your mnemonic will work for me, I think. -- John Hall "Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing." Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)