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AW: Re: Military time (whoops!)
- Subject: AW: Re: Military time (whoops!)
- From: flash@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:06:08 +0200
≪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. ≫
For anyone traveling by rail in Europe, two minutes after 23:49 (nearly midnight) is 00:01 the next
day.