Re: Military time (whoops!)

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

cld@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> BTW, my sixth way failed to account correctly for midnight and noon.
Just for the benefit of anyone who may be following
this and not know it (which I find a lot of Americans
don't):

midday (1200 military/euro time) is noon; not a.m. or p.m.

12:01 p.m. (1201) is one minute after noon.
midnight (2400--or is it 0000?) is midnight, not a.m.
or p.m., and is conventionally counted in the day just
finishing: midnight/2400 Wednesday. If mil time is in
fact 0000, it would make more sense to count it with
the next day; but Theodore Bernstein (late copy chief
of the NYTimes, and author of The Careful
Writer, one of the basic references for copy
editors) insists it's counted with the dying day, not
the new-born one.
12:01 a.m. (0001) is one minute after midnight the next
day: 12:01 a.m./0001 Thursday.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx