Subject: RE: [xsl] Q on ISO TimeDate convertion From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 16:16:29 -0500 |
12:00am is the middle of the night when many people (apart from Mike, who, judging from the timestamps on his postings, never sleeps) are asleep. 12:00pm is "the middle of the day, at least for farmers, when one traditionally eats lunch. Think of 12 as really meaning 0 and the am/pm as being the high order bit of the time of day.
The point I'm unclear about is whether 12:00am belongs to the same day as 11:59pm or as 12:01am.
> They'll be asking to do pounds, shillings and pence next.
I think that for as long as we've had a national currency, it's been decimal. Imagine how funny our spreadsheets looked when the stock exchanges started pricing shares in $1/16ths.
Cheers, Wendell (back from his Deutschland-Reise)
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