And yet, people usually refer to "midnight tonight".

For instance, the Chilean miner rescue is being reported as possibly starting at midnight tomorrow, but they mean first thing early Wednesday morning. Midnight tomorrow is 8 hours from now, not 32.


Discuss.

10/11/2010 4:07:18 PM

with the way you describe it it makes no difference

the ending is just another beginning

theres no grace period between day and night

10/11/2010 4:08:10 PM

Quote :

"Discuss."

I don't give a shit.
^SHHH! You're not supposed to point that out!

[Edited on October 11, 2010 at 4:08 PM. Reason : d]

10/11/2010 4:08:14 PM

k

10/11/2010 4:08:30 PM

k

10/11/2010 4:09:14 PM

10/11/2010 4:10:20 PM

Who gives a fuck

10/11/2010 4:11:23 PM

What about when people say things like "1 Friday night" when they really mean Saturday morning?

I bet that really grinds your gears.

10/11/2010 4:13:00 PM

I'd imagine most people instinctively associate midnight with the end of the day because they typically wake up in the morning and go to sleep within 2 hours on either side of midnight, making it the approximate end of their waking period, hence, the end of their day.

Rare social events that transcend the typical night/day structure, such as instances of bitches in the living room gettin' it on, are usually referred to with the proper AM/PM designation; in this case, six in the morning.

It's an interesting social phenomenon, and I'm glad you brought it up.

10/11/2010 4:13:19 PM

I already know that midnight is where the day begins, because Bono told me so in U2's "Lemon"...and I learned that all the way back in '93, so I guess that makes me a real smart cookie, what with my super memory and shit.

10/11/2010 4:41:46 PM

eh nvm - backs out of thread

[Edited on October 11, 2010 at 5:03 PM. Reason : .]

10/11/2010 4:59:05 PM

I, too, like to ignore the story and nitpick at semantics.

10/11/2010 5:17:35 PM

10/11/2010 5:18:20 PM

all of your arguments are irrelevant

EARTH HAS 4 CORNER

SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY

TIME CUBE

IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.

timecube.com

10/11/2010 6:59:22 PM

My favorite part of time cube is that page is like 50,000 pixels tall

You get to the bottom and there's a fucking next page link

10/11/2010 7:21:48 PM

Only because people are refering to the night that they went out. "I was out until midnight that night"

Or "I was out until 4 that night"

It was still night.

I am sure that most people are aware that midnight means it's starting the next day. Unless all those people who are counting down till midnight on new years eve have no clue why they are counting down.

10/11/2010 7:50:03 PM

actually, midnight is the end of the day. you lose, good DAY, sir! That's why there is a 2400 in the 24-hour clock, but no 2401.

10/11/2010 7:53:51 PM

Yeah the day doesn't start until the exact moment after midnight.

10/11/2010 7:58:12 PM

This is the reason assignments and things are due at 11:59pm or 12:01am. So there's no question. Midnight is neither AM or PM.

10/11/2010 8:06:29 PM

Who gives a shit?

I call usually call anything until 5 or 6 AM "last night" (if it's later that day) or "tonight" (if it's the previous day). Even if the dates change at midnight, the "night" is still one continuous thing.

Quote :

"My favorite part of time cube is that page is like 50,000 pixels tall You get to the bottom and there's a fucking next page link"

Time Cube has a second page!??!?

[Edited on October 11, 2010 at 8:10 PM. Reason : .]

10/11/2010 8:09:28 PM

ALL CLOCK FACES ARE WRONG

http://timecube.com/imageFUA.JPG

can i use html in posts?

[Edited on October 11, 2010 at 8:29 PM. Reason : image is gigantor]

10/11/2010 8:27:48 PM

Quote :

"can i use html in posts?"

If you're Premie...

10/11/2010 8:32:07 PM

12:00:00.0 AM... the start of the new day... not the day before... not in between.

[Edited on October 11, 2010 at 9:49 PM. Reason : ]

10/11/2010 9:48:53 PM

semantics ITT

10/11/2010 9:56:55 PM

^
where?


12:00:00.0 AM = new day = midnight
11:59:59.999999999999999999999999999999 PM = previous day = not midnight



What's so hard to understand about that?

[Edited on October 11, 2010 at 10:09 PM. Reason : ]

10/11/2010 10:07:26 PM

what about t=0+ and t=0-

10/11/2010 10:17:53 PM

tonight implies the nearest period of time between sunset and sunrise.
tomorrow implies to the nearest period of time between sunrise and sunset.
In that regard, midnight tomorrow makes no more sense than noon tonight.

I bet you are a real hoot at parties.

10/11/2010 10:23:41 PM

^
wrong.

tonight implies the nearest period of time between sunset and sunrise.
tomorrow implies to the nearest period of time starting at midnight until just before the next midnight.
In that regard midnight tomorrow means the beginning of the next day.
There is no noon at night.

^^
harry, there is no negative zero.
The standard for computing floating point arithmetic is not at play, nor is +/- infinity.

10/11/2010 10:33:45 PM

Quote :

"12:00:00.0 AM "

midnight and noon have no AM/PM notation.

10/11/2010 10:37:38 PM

again, I bet you are a real hoot at parties.

10/11/2010 10:42:38 PM

It is not the next day until I wake up in the morning. End of story.

10/11/2010 10:44:51 PM

^^^^
ydni, 0+ and 0- exists in my 200 homework
i just figured i would try to be difficult since we were running out of hairs to split

10/11/2010 10:54:45 PM

Quote :

"midnight and noon have no AM/PM notation"

Huh? No. Midnight is AM, and noon is PM.
You gotta source to refute that?

10/12/2010 9:29:02 AM

ante meridian and post meridian mean before and after noon. Noon is neither before or after noon, and midnight is equidistant in either direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon

Quote :

"While computers and digital clocks display "12:00 a.m." and "12:00 p.m." these notations provide no clear and unambiguous way to distinguish between midnight and noon. It is actually improper to use "a.m." and "p.m." when referring to 12:00. The abbreviation a.m. stands for ante meridiem (or before the meridian) and p.m. stands for post meridiem (or after the meridian), with the meridian being 12:00 noon. For this reason, neither abbreviation is correct for noon or midnight.[4] The length of the error is determined by the smallest unit of time: 12:00:01 p.m. would be correctly notated, as would even 12:00:00.00001 pm. The most common ways to represent these times are, (a) to use a 24-hour clock (00:00 and 12:00, 24:00), (b) to use "12 noon" or "12 midnight," although unless the person is referring to a general time and not a specific day, "12 midnight" is still ambiguous, (c) to specify midnight as between two successive days or dates (Midnight Saturday/Sunday or Midnight December 14/15), and (d) to use "12:01 p.m." or "11:59 a.m." This final usage is common in the travel industry, especially train and plane schedules, to avoid confusion as to passengers' schedules. "

your trolling isn't very effective when google says you're blatantly wrong.

[Edited on October 13, 2010 at 9:48 AM. Reason : maybe you're just not trolling, but incredibly stupid and were taught by a digital clock]

10/13/2010 9:48:02 AM

indy pwnt, stay home

10/13/2010 10:36:56 AM

So what are your thoughts on Noon?

10/13/2010 10:39:30 AM

Midnight is where the day begins

10/13/2010 12:16:58 PM

this thread may have needed to be stopped after OP

10/13/2010 12:28:50 PM

24-hour clock ftw

10/13/2010 12:32:18 PM