At ease, gents; that is the sailor in me coming out. Today's 2400 local time is identical to and simultaneous with tomorrow's 0000 local time. I'm in the habit of using either, depending on the context. The 20 to 24 watch is relieved by the 00 to 04 watch at 2400 the ending day, which is 0000 the beginning day. But there is no 2401, except in the area of celestial navigation calculations.
Call it a "personal difference" with the rest of the world, if you will. After all, millions of Frenchmen enjoy a "national difference" in some areas, as does the U.S. on certain spellings. John, I have a clock on my wall, set to 24 hour mode, and it bugs me that it reports times just after midnight as 0:23, for example, instead of 0023. I'm sorry to hear that your watch suffers the same affliction. Carry on. Jim On Monday, 2001 December 31 15:46, kilopascal wrote: > 2001-12-31 .... > Also, there is no such time as 24:00. Midnight is 0:00 h (zero hour), the > first moment of the new day. My watch when in the 24 h mode displays > midnight correctly as 0:00 h. -- James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
