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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   John Hall wrote on 19/11/23 7:55 pm:   
   > 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.   
      
   Don't you just hate it when someone applies LOGIC to an argument?? ;-P   
      
   > 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).   
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   Daniel   
      
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