Re: [time-nuts] am, m, pm and ?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Van Baak
> What I'm wondering is what do we call midnight, given these conventions? The > time 00:00:00 is not really pm or am, as are 11:59:59 pm and 00:00:01 am > are. Somehow saying 12:00:00 am sounds inconsistent. Is there perhaps some > archaic suffix that was or is used to denote exact midnight, just

Re: [time-nuts] am, m, pm and ?

2005-07-17 Thread David Kirkby
Dave Carlson wrote: This is something that I've wondered about. I know that someone out there will know or at least have an opinion. It's generally agreed that time between midnight and noon is expressed as hh:mm:ss with the "am" suffix for "ante meridian" (yes, I'm keeping this discussion to a

[time-nuts] am, m, pm and ?

2005-07-17 Thread Dave Carlson
This is something that I've wondered about. I know that someone out there will know or at least have an opinion. It's generally agreed that time between midnight and noon is expressed as hh:mm:ss with the "am" suffix for "ante meridian" (yes, I'm keeping this discussion to a 12-hour clock). Also o