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Does anybody know for certain if friday midnight means friday 00:00 am or friday 11:59 pm? Basically, start of day friday or end of day?
by needmoney04 7y ago
Does anybody know for certain if friday midnight means friday 00:00 am or friday 11:59 pm?
Basically, start of day friday or end of day?
- tremon 7y agoDutch media reports "night from Friday to Saturday", so it's the latter. But that still leaves the open question in which timezone the 11:59 is in (and whether that's a static timezone, or based on local time at departure/arrival), and whether the 11:59 refers to actual or planned time of departure/arrival.
- needmoney04 7y agoYes, multiple news media reports the ban going into effect on 11:59 pm Friday. Some (e.g., "The Sun") report it as 12:00 am Friday. Unless they give an official answer from the White House, I would not consider either report from news as reliable. "Midnight Friday" can be interpreted both ways until they clarify.
- squiggleblaz 7y agoMidnight never refers to 11.59pm, which is one minute before midnight. I can say that for certain. Normally I would take "midnight on Friday" as an instant to mean 2400, since if you're somewhere at 1am on Saturday morning you wouldn't consider it a problem to say "we were out partying on Friday night", but if you were there at 11pm on Friday night you would consider it a problem to say "we were out partying on Saturday night. However in the particular case of something beginning, I would normally take take it to mean "the very start of Friday according to legal time". Likewise, in the particular case of something ending, I would normally take it to mean "the very end of Friday according to legal time".