Han: Are you sure you meant to say 24:00, rather than 00:00?
(O.K., I'm just jerking your chain. 24:00 is, of course, permissible to clearly denote the end of the old day as opposed to the start of the new day, even though no digital clock would ever actually display it.) Incidentally, it's not correct to say 24:00 hours, as the part after the colon is minutes. In the proper context, 24:00 is sufficient. Remember, it's not really SI, so we're not compelled to indicate a unit just for the sake of making it clear that it isn't a dimensionless value. However, replacing the colon with an h (e.g., 15h00) is acceptable, according to ISO 8601.. (When we write a date in ISO 8601 format, we don't add the word "years" to something like 2005-01-19.) Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of H. Maenen >Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 14:12 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:31968] Count down > > >I am now following the count down. Les then 2 hours before >Ireland changes in such a way that she will never be the same >again. I only hope that my computer won't crash just before 1 >o'clock in the morning. We have Central European Time, so when it >is 24:00 hours in Ireland, it is 01:00 hours in The Netherlands. >The BWMA must be gnashing its teeth now! > >Han >
