At 18:47 o'clock PM, "Joel C. Ewing" said:
Thinking in terms of discontinuities: if one ignores the definitions and
insists on assigning noon and midnight some AM and PM designation, making
noon be PM introduces two discontinuities in the notation around noon (1159
AM -> 1200 PM -> 0001 PM) and around midnight (11:59PM -> 12:00 AM -> 00:01
AM) while making noon "AM" makes the discontinuity in suffix and numeric
value both occur at one point (12:00 AM -> 00:01 PM and 12:00 PM -> 00:01
AM) and would obviously be a cleaner choice, even though technically still
incorrect.
Specifiying 00:01AM and 00:01PM is even worse than 12:00AM and 12:00PM.
00:01 is 24hour format and therefore occurs only once per day. AM and PM
have no place in "military" time format.
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