[cab-discuss] election calendar decision reqd

[Rich Teer]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote:

> >2. Use 23:59 as the ending time rather than 00:00.
> 
> Why not use 24:00; it's not as ugly as 23:59 and isn't ambiguous either.

The pedant in me would point out that apart from the very occassional
leap second, there's no such time as 24:00.  :-)  And I wouldn't agree
that 23:59 is ambiguous.  It's a precise time, and the intent ("before
Midnight") is clear.

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