[cab-discuss] election calendar decision reqd

[Ian Collins]

Rich Teer wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote:
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>>>2. Use 23:59 as the ending time rather than 00:00.
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>>Why not use 24:00; it's not as ugly as 23:59 and isn't ambiguous either.
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>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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That's what I thought, so I had a look and came up with this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock

Looks like I've been wrong all these years!

Ian