[ntp:questions] Re: noon/midnight
Terje Mathisen
terje.mathisen at hda.hydro.com
Tue Dec 2 09:16:52 UTC 2003
J B Carr wrote:
> I little off topic, but I thought someone here would know the answer to
> this question.
>
> Is noon 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM? Can you give me a reference to the standard?
Wrong question:
Noon being 12 AM or 12 PM isn't the problem.
The stupid insistence of US (and a few other countries) to continue
using a 12-hour clock to measure 24-hour days is the real problem.
Switch to ISO (which btw _is_ the standard) for both time & date, and
you won't have this particular problem anymore.
(You will have problems with people refusing to understand your dates,
but let's leave that for another day, shall we? :-)
Terje
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