On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 06:21:57PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-06-24 at 18:12, John Hasler wrote: > > > The Wanderer writes: > > > >> (Similar logic could be used for 11:59:59 PM, 12:00 M, and 12:00:01 AM, > >> where the standalone M would stand for "midnight". That does expose one > >> unfortunate weakness of this system: unless you introduce an additional > >> layer of complexity, e.g. using "00:00 M", the notations for noon and > >> midnight would be identical.) > > > > 12 Noon and 12 Midnight works. >
British forces - and probably also merchant shipping - use log keeping for radio purposes in UTC. The need to be sure of dates means that 0000 doesn't exist - logs jump from 2359 to 0001. A colleague - ex-RAF - reckons that those are the two minutes the RAF gives each person for personal space :) Andy > Except that "noon" doesn't begin with "m", and therefore "12:00 noon" > can't be abbreviated to "12:00 M". > > I think that (plus the fact of "ante meridiem"/"post meridiem") was > probably what I was drawing on in coming up with the idea in the first > place. > > -- > The Wanderer > > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw >
