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"8AM to 12 PM" think you mean 12 AM unless you go to bed at lunch :)
by arsome 3y ago
"8AM to 12 PM" think you mean 12 AM unless you go to bed at lunch :)
- b3orn 3y agoIf it's meant for Europeans just use 24h time. 00:00 to 8:00.
- littlestymaar 3y agoIf you're awake from 00:00 to 8:00, you're probably a vampire ;)
- capableweb 3y agoAlso known as "being on night call"
- littlestymaar 3y agoEven then, you don't usually sleep 16 hours a day…
- wongarsu 3y ago* 8:00 to 24:00 (or 8:00 to 0:00)
- dylan604 3y agoThere is no 24:00. It goes from 23:59 to 00:00
- wongarsu 3y agoOf course there is. Just because it doesn't appear on common clocks doesn't mean it isn't a valid time. To quote page 15 of ISO 8601:2004 (the newest version available on libgen): > hour is represented by two digits from [00] to [24]. The representation of the hour by [24] is only allowed to indicate the end of a calendar day And Page 17: > NOTE 1 Midnight will normally be represented as [00:00] or [24:00]. > NOTE 2 The end of one calendar day [24:00] coincides with [00:00] at the start of the next calendar day, e.g. [24:00] on 12 April 1985 is the same as [00:00] on 13 April 1985. If there is no association with a date or a time interval both a) and b) represent the same local time in the 24-hour timekeeping system. > NOTE 3 The choice of representation a) or b) will depend upon any association with a date, or a time interval. Representations where [hh] has the value [24] are only preferred to represent the end of a time interval in accordance with 4.4 or recurring time interval in accordance with 4.5
- dylan604 3y agoNote 3 is just wrong. 00:00 is the start of the next day. Otherwise, your previous day would now be 24hours + 1second. "representations" is just allowing people to do things incorrectly and having everyone else accept them.
- wongarsu 3y agoIt's not an extra second, a clock might go 23:59:59 - 00:00:00 - 00:00:01 or 23:59:59 - 24:00:00 - 00:00:01. Both are equivalent and have the same meaning, with the only difference that 00:00:00 belongs to the new day and 24:00:00 belongs to the old day (despite both being the exact same moment in time). Of course clocks choose the former for simplicity, but for stating the end of an interval 24:00 can be clearer and preferred. 24:00 has no duration, it's only an instant in time. The same could be said about 11:34 of course, as long as you assume 11:34 to mean 11:34:00.0000000000000000000000 and not the interval from 11:34 to just before 11:35.
- throwawaymobule 3y agoNot that it's the same thing, but have you ever seen Japanese TV schedules? They go up to 26:30 and beyond regularly. I think this stuff's pretty arbitrary, at best.
- gota 3y ago[flagged]
- msla 3y agoAre we pretending only Americans use AM/PM time, now?
- AlotOfReading 3y agoThe stupid quirks are what make countries charming. AM/PM isn't unique to the US, but it's not like European countries don't have their own types of silliness. Americans are similarly baffled by the lack of air-conditioning in buildings that clearly need it given 40C summers and the fact that restaurants in many countries serve bottled water by default when the tap is perfectly fine.
- msla 3y agoPlus the fact restaurants are allergic to adding ice to drinks, probably because they ration them to the milliliter (or millilitre, even! nice job standardizing that, BTW) and there are no free refills.