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RE: Q on ISO TimeDate convertion
Michael Kay writes:
> > The problems I have not solved:
> >
> > 0:30 or 12:30 or 24:30?
> >
> > And according to this: Where is AM/PM-bound? 12 to 1 o'clock
> > or 11 to 0 o'clock?
> >
> Best to avoid tackling this problem if you're not familiar with the
> peculiarities of the American system. Half-past-midnight is definitely 12:30
> am (on the following day), and half-past-noon is (I seem to remember) 12:30
> pm, but when it comes to midnight and noon, it all depends who you talk to.
12:00am is the middle of the night when many people (apart from Mike,
who, judging from the timestamps on his postings, never sleeps) are
asleep. 12:00pm is "the middle of the day, at least for farmers, when
one traditionally eats lunch. Think of 12 as really meaning 0 and the
am/pm as being the high order bit of the time of day.
The point I'm unclear about is whether 12:00am belongs to the same day
as 11:59pm or as 12:01am.
> They'll be asking to do pounds, shillings and pence next.
I think that for as long as we've had a national currency, it's been
decimal. Imagine how funny our spreadsheets looked when the stock
exchanges started pricing shares in $1/16ths.
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