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0 pointsmarsrover8y ago0 comments

Well, it's not ambiguous what the word "midnight" means.

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It is, when it's attached to a day - it could be at the very beginning of that day or the very end.

SllX8y ago

Friday Midnight is the same as Midnight Saturday Morning.

I mean there is no standards committee for this, but that's what common convention tells us in the Anglophone part of the world.

FabHK8y ago

Is "midnight 1st January 2017" unambiguous? Would it be in a legal document?

I've often enough seen "1st January 2017, 11:59 pm" or, even worse, "1st January 2017, 12:01 am" for deadlines etc.

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FabHK8y ago

It is, when it's attached to a day - it could be at the very beginning of that day or the very end.

SllX8y ago

Friday Midnight is the same as Midnight Saturday Morning.

I mean there is no standards committee for this, but that's what common convention tells us in the Anglophone part of the world.

FabHK8y ago

Is "midnight 1st January 2017" unambiguous? Would it be in a legal document?

I've often enough seen "1st January 2017, 11:59 pm" or, even worse, "1st January 2017, 12:01 am" for deadlines etc.

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