* Risker wrote: >Just to clarify, since 0000 UTC is a confusing time for most of us...is >that the minute after 2359 UTC on November 2 (i.e., 7 hours after the first >session), or is it the minute after 2359 UTC on November 3? > >I've seen it used both ways so I just want to be clear.
Could you elaborate on this confusion and where you think it is common? The 24 hour clock divides a day into 24 hours from 0 to 23 starting at midnight. 23:59 is 23 hours and 59 minutes after 00:00 on the same day. 2013-11-03T00:00Z --+ 2013-11-03T00:01Z | ... | 2013-11-03T00:59Z |-- November 3rd 2013-11-03T01:00Z | ... | 2013-11-03T23:59Z --+ 2013-11-04T00:00Z ... The minute after 2013-11-03T23:59Z is on November 4th. I do understand that when setting a deadline you are better off giving the end of a day as deadline so the time is up when the day is over, otherwise people see a contradiction and get confused, but beyond that I've not encountered this particular confusion. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[email protected] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
