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Why 12:01AM and not 12:00AM?
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I'm thinking you don't know what ambiguous means.
Ambiguous means that something means two or more things at the same time.
Like saying today is saturday and sunday. That is ambiguous clearly today can't be saturday and sunday.
In order to solve the problem of midnight being both saturday and sunday it was declared that 12:00 is saturday and 12:01 is sunday.
When planning for things like war, train rides, or even current day with software you cannot have ambiguity as it simply doesn't make sense.
Ambiguous means that something means two or more things at the same time.
Like saying today is saturday and sunday. That is ambiguous clearly today can't be saturday and sunday.
In order to solve the problem of midnight being both saturday and sunday it was declared that 12:00 is saturday and 12:01 is sunday.
When planning for things like war, train rides, or even current day with software you cannot have ambiguity as it simply doesn't make sense.
Believe what you want. Try doing a bank transaction at 0000. Will never happen. It will only register as 12:59/2359 or 12:01/0001.
And I served 24 years in the military, a lot of those on watch and maintaining logs. I've got a pretty good idea how military time works..
But as I said, believe what you want.
Let's put it this way: We all agree that there are 24 hours in a day, right? If so, 24:00 (military time) is 12 midnight and the end of day so 12:01 am is the start of the next 24 h day.
Declared by whom? Who decided 12:00 is Saturday and 12:01 is Sunday?
All that wiki says is that 11:59 is treated as "Saturday" and 12:01 is treated as "Sunday". 12:00 is treated as ambiguous.
Hell, NIST itself says it's ambiguous: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/times.cfm
right so 11:59 is saturday and 12:01 is the next day.
How are you not getting this?
How are you not getting this?
And what is 12:00? You stated 12:00 is Saturday. 11:59 and 12:01 are only suggestions for when the day is more important than the exact minute. 12:00 technically represents the start and end of a day, and without context it can technically be either.
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I laughed so hard. Thank you!
I have a feeling many of the commenters aren't even trolling, which is why it's so funny/sad.
People at the 2000 new year's party also wrongly thought it was the beginning of the 21st century.
Wrongly? How can they be wrong about a calendar that was chosen arbitrarily anyway?
People chose to make that the start of the 21st century.
Think soccer/football goal scoring time. Goes in the books as "In the 59th minute" when the goal was actually scored at 60 minutes 1 seconds.
You don't just choose whatever system suits you. Now, if they said they were celebrating the beginning of the 2000s they'd be correct. 21st century began on January 1, 2001.
Sure I can. If I say there was a year 0, today is still 9/11/2014, it's not like I've changed something that will interfere with the way society does things.
The first century started on year 0, the 21st started on 2000. "Oh but there's no year 0". I'll add one to every year BCE.
12:00 of course.
I'm assuming you got your answer though. I saw it mentioned a few times; people likely would be confused on which day the release would take place on. Seems like the best explanation to me, anyway.
Your post isn't rooted in fact, but to answer your OP, there are 24 hours in a day so in order to pass all 24 hours we need to get to 12 midnight (24:00 military time). Otherwise, you'd accumulate only 23 h 59 min.
There's no reason why his system wouldn't work. Before the common era, there was no real standard for recording years, so adding 1 to every BCE year and defining 0 BCE as 0 CE doesn't really break any historical records.
Fact of the matter is that enough people treat the "0th" year as the start of a century/millennium that it's not really worth correcting.
haha, really!
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shouldn't we start from when he/she was conceived?
This is amazing thread. 
We are having a debate on a minute difference in the time. I'm really at a loss for words right now, I don't know what to say. I guess i'll just sit and enjoy this enlightening debate. I can't wait until the thread starts heading into a grand talk on BC or AD. Maybe something really hard like, Who's on first? How bout the classic, chicken or the egg?
We are having a debate on a minute difference in the time. I'm really at a loss for words right now, I don't know what to say. I guess i'll just sit and enjoy this enlightening debate. I can't wait until the thread starts heading into a grand talk on BC or AD. Maybe something really hard like, Who's on first? How bout the classic, chicken or the egg?
This is amazing thread.
so who is on first?