> one successful attempt at addressing this problem is Japanese late night anime schedules Depending on the channel, the "new date cut-off" (more accurately: 日

> one successful attempt at addressing this problem is Japanese late night anime schedules Depending on the channel, the "new date cut-off" (more accurately: 日付変更) sometimes varies. Some channels start the day at 5am, others at 4am, and so on. Because of this, one gets to see wild things, such as a time-table scheduling a show at "29:30" whereas another channel would write "05:30". In any case, your claim is correct. The people who stay up to watch late-night shows do not consider their day finished around those hours, and the times are intended to reflect that. However, there is still inconsistency around the hour of the new day. A similar issue exists in video games. I know of one game that "starts the new day", so to speak, at 5am, and another game that does so at exactly 12am. To add further confusion, many Japanese websites and games are designed with the assumption that the user is always in Japanese Standard Time. (Most Japanese do not travel abroad, and Japan itself has exactly one time zone, thus Japanese programmers rarely ever think about time zones). Thus, when overseas, you may see the new day in a video game start at 1pm local time!