From: Ralph Babel (rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de)
Date: Fri Nov 29 2002 - 12:02:37 CST
Charles Lindsey wrote:
>>> Voting closes at midnight GMT on November 28th.
>>
>> Gee, it's really smart to specify a timezone, but not to
>> specify whether midnight is meant to be 00:00 or 24:00.
>
> I am not responsible for your inability
> to comprehend standard English usage.
| As every day both starts and ends with midnight, the two
| notations 00:00 and 24:00 are available to distinguish
| the two midnights that can be associated with one date.
| This means that the following two notations refer
| to exactly the same point in time:
|
| 1995-02-04 24:00 = 1995-02-05 00:00
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
| This notation even allows one to distinguish midnight at
| the start of the day [00:00] from midnight at the end of
| the day [24:00], while the old English notation requires
| kludges like starting a contract at 12:01 A.M. in order
| to make clear which of the two midnights associated
| with a date had been intended.
http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Company/9783/pitanja/Time.htm
> In fact, you were within the dealine by a few hours.
| Midnight (GMT) shall be represented in the form:
|
| "YYYYMMDD000000Z"
|
| where "YYYYMMDD" represents the day
| following the midnight in question.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dgil/scm/x690.pdf
| The ISO 8601 Standard states that the midnight hour may
| be represented as 24. In order to avoid confusion, this
| standard will always use 00 as the midnight hour.
http://www.ercot.com/texaschoiceprogram/documentation/MarkPartDocs/ERCOTTimeStandards.doc