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 of course that times from noon to midnight are expressed as hh:mm:ss with the "pm" suffix for "post meridian". Also I've heard that noon is known as meridian or "m" and that the time 12:00:00 exactly could have the "m" suffix, even if this time only exists for a brief moment, loosely speaking. 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 as "m" is used to denote exact noon? Dave Carlson _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
