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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   John Hall wrote on 18/11/23 9:13 pm:   
   > In message , Daniel65   
   >  writes   
   >> J. P. Gilliver wrote on 18/11/23 5:04 am:   
   >>> In message  at Fri, 17 Nov 2023   
   >>> 11:37:28, Mark Lloyd  writes []   
   >>>> 38 days until the winter celebration (Monday, December 25, 2023   
   >>>> 12:00 AM for 1 day).   
   >>> [] Is "12:00 AM" syntactically valid?   
   >>   
   >> Surely one of the '12:00' would be 'AM' .... but whether that is   
   >> 'Midnight' or 'Midday' ..... Pass!   
   >   
   > I often see references to 12 AM and 12 PM, and I'm sometimes left   
   > uncertain as to whether noon or midnight was meant. Use of the 24-hour   
   > clock (or simply using the words "noon" and "midnight") avoids any   
   > ambiguity.   
      
   Yeap!! Many long years ago, a place I used to work required 24/7   
   attendance so had shift-work. On week-ends, the shifts were 12 hours   
   shifts, but they never referred to a shift starting at either 12:00.   
      
   It was either 11:59am or 11:59pm, no 12:00 either way!!   
   --   
   Daniel   
      
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