"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote on 2006-02-17 05:58 UTC:
> However, London Underground does print 24:00 on a ticket issued at
> midnight, and in fact continues up to 27:30 (such tickets count as being
> issued on the previous day for validity purposes, and this helps to
> reinforce it).
The tickets of
Clive Feather wrote:
London Underground does print 24:00 on a ticket issued at midnight,
and in fact continues up to 27:30
An even better example. We cannot expect to dissuade such usage.
Deploying systems that require it be avoided is folly. Wouldn't
think the modulus operator would be cont
Clive D.W. Feather scripsit:
> However, London Underground does print 24:00 on a ticket issued at
> midnight, and in fact continues up to 27:30 (such tickets count as being
> issued on the previous day for validity purposes, and this helps to
> reinforce it).
Airlines in the U.S., where the doubl
Ed Davies scripsit:
> No, it amounts to saying that some days are 24 hours and 1 second
> long. When you're half a second from the end of such a day you
> are 24 hours, zero minutes and half a second from the start.
I grant that. Nonetheless, the third-from-last figure in a broken-out
timestamp
Ed Davies scripsit:
If only the 24:00 for end of day notation wasn't in the way
we could look at positive leap seconds as just being the
result of deeming certain days to be a second longer than
most and just use 24:00:00. We wouldn't have to muck with
the lengths of any of the hours or minutes
