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   From: john_nospam@jhall.co.uk   
      
   In message <87o7fqepj9.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>, Keith Thompson   
    writes   
   >"J. P. Gilliver"  writes:   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   >12:00 AM is one minute before 12:01 AM (midnight).   
   >12:00 PM is one minute before 12:01 PM (noon).   
   >   
   You could equally argue:   
   12:00 AM is one minute after 11:59 AM (noon)   
   12:00 PM is one minute after 11:59 PM (midnight).   
      
   That ambiguity is why I find it confusing.   
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