Is midnight today or tomorrow?
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electrafixtion
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neither, it's midNIGHT.
it expires on March 11th, or "good through 03/11"
it expires on March 11th, or "good through 03/11"
11:59:59 is today. 12:00:00 is tomorrow.
Apples and oranges.
12 midnight is the next day. It's not the day before and it's not in some 'limbo' area like zero is. It's the next freakin day.
Nope, it's midnight ...it's 12:00 ...not am, not pm ...it's just midnight. It's the same as zero in the number system.
Baron Max
Well I have always heard from Military to civilian circles, to programming code. Midnight is the next day.
Enmos
Valued Senior Member
How long does midnight last ?
a moment of a lifetime, worth remembering.
well firstly its never written as 2400hrs, its ALWAYS written as 0000hrs and there for its the next day.
even using a 12 hour clock its 12:00 AM which again suggests its the next day (well unless you think that the day starts in the afternoon anyway)
even using a 12 hour clock its 12:00 AM which again suggests its the next day (well unless you think that the day starts in the afternoon anyway)
What concept of life is not a material one.
It's definitely tomorrow.
You can think of it this way. You have to realize that it is midnight for a whole 60 seconds. If you think that midnight is still "today", then you would have to agree that it won't be tomorrow until 12:01:00. But midnight itself refers to 12:00:00. That means 12:00:01-12:00:59 will be past midnight, which would imply that the days don't start and end at midnight, but rather a full 60 seconds after.
That's a contradiction with the definition. So either you accept that midnight is tomorrow, or you assume there is a small slice of time every 24 hours that is completely unaccounted for by the calendar, which doesn't make any sense.
You can think of it this way. You have to realize that it is midnight for a whole 60 seconds. If you think that midnight is still "today", then you would have to agree that it won't be tomorrow until 12:01:00. But midnight itself refers to 12:00:00. That means 12:00:01-12:00:59 will be past midnight, which would imply that the days don't start and end at midnight, but rather a full 60 seconds after.
That's a contradiction with the definition. So either you accept that midnight is tomorrow, or you assume there is a small slice of time every 24 hours that is completely unaccounted for by the calendar, which doesn't make any sense.
the concept of life itself. Its more ethereal function.