At 12:57 AM 6/2/04 -0700, Weronika Patena wrote: >The last confusing time detail I can never remember properly - do you >use 00 or 12 for midnight and noon, and which one is pm and which one >is am?
In twelve-hour time, it's 12:00. (In modular arithmetic -- "clock arithmetic", useful for many things but it's been forty years since I studied it & no longer remember what -- it would be 0:00. More precisely, 12 mod 12 equals zero, as do 24, 36, etc.) Everybody gets confused over whether 12:00 is ante meridian or post meridian. But everyone agrees that 12:01 in the afternoon is post meridian, and 12:01 in the morning is ante meridian. Sensible people say that the time one minute after 11:59 AM is "twelve noon", and the time one minute after 11:59 PM is "twelve midnight". -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the sun is shining. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
