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   From: john_nospam@jhall.co.uk   
      
   In message , Char Jackson   
    writes   
   >On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 10:13:35 +0000, John Hall  wrote:   
   >   
   >>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.   
   >   
   >I don't think I've ever met anyone (until now?) who found 12 AM and 12 PM to   
   be   
   >ambiguous. Interesting.   
   >   
      
   AM stands for "ante meridiem" and PM for "post meridiem", i.e. before   
   and after midday respectively. But 12 noon is neither before nor after,   
   so logically it should be 12 M. Midnight is both 12 hours before and 12   
   hours post, but I suppose it would be more logical to call it 12 PM (or   
   maybe 0 AM).   
   --   
   John Hall   
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