Gavan Schneider wrote (at 9:13 PM on Sunday, Jan 2, 2022): > On 3 Jan 2022, at 15:52, Antonio Leding wrote: > >> My research informs me that both 00:00 and 24:00 are, in some situations, >> used interchangeably for the top-of-the-hour at midnight. However, that >> same research shows that the time between midnight and 1am are denoted using >> 00:xx format; consider “Zero Dark Thirty” = 30 minutes past midnight or >> 00:30. In fact, I was unable to find any standardized uses of the 24:xx >> format for describing times between the top-of-midnight & 1am; all of the >> refs I found used 00:xx. >> > See below for the standardised use (which is probably not in ‘standard’ use > of course — https://xkcd.com/2562 ) > >> I have discovered that Mailmate displays times between top-of-midnight & 1am >> using the 24:xx format so, with the above in mind, I wanted to ask if this >> is intentional or a bug? >> > It’s only a bug if Benny didn’t want this to happen, however it is not > correct according to standard
Because 00:01 is the first minute in the first hour of the day, a time of 24:01 would be the first minute of the 25th hour of the day, which is ludicrous. _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate