The problems are that nobody writes 12:00 midnight or 12:00 noon. which are unambiguous, and that different style guides give different definitions. NIST recommends not using either 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM, but rather using something unambiguous.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Billy Ashton <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 8:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE And in that "special" US format, I am surprised at how many people think 12:00 AM is noon instead of midnight...I can see how that is much clearer! B >>. . . >> I was forced to change it to the "US standard" of mm/dd/yy hh:ms:ss xM >> (x==A or P) because nobody understood that format and it was too difficult >> for them to understand. This was IT internal only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
