RE: *USA Time

I've really enjoyed reading all of the replies to this thread. Thanks Rory for putting me in my place. :) All I'm saying is that any digital watch I've come across in a store displays midnight and midday as 12am and 12pm respectively. I realize that doesn't mean IBM should have contacted the watch-maker association before deciding what to do.

And this is really simply a case of what Louis C.K. would refer to as people never being happy. Here I am, with these wonderful variables defined as date and time that makes life as a programmer so much easier, and I have to complain about one little thing that has happened to me once in probably around 7 years of using that type of variable.

Thanks,
Kurt

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Albert York
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 10:11 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: *USA Time

That was my point. Just because we celebrated it at that time, it doesn't mean it was right.

Albert

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sounds like you were a year early.  According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century the 19th Century ended
12/31/1900.  It follows then that 20th Century ended 12/31/2000,
making 1/1/2001 the first day of the current century.  Of course, by
definition, a century may be any 100-year time period.  One of those
will be ending in a few minutes, Eastern US time.  But if you live by
the Gregorian calendar (and most of us do) then our century is in its 11th year, not its 12th.

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
"Why is it $10 looks so small at the grocery store, but so big at church?"
       -- Unknown

And we celebrated the start of the century on 1/1/2000

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Neill Harper <neill.harper@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Midnight is 00:00:00, on the 3rd there is only one midnight and it
is

the

first instance of time on that day.

To prove this we celebrate new years day at 00:00:00 (the countdown

to

midnight) and not 00:00:01

Neill



On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I have never understood if "midnight on the 3rd" means the
beginning

of

the 3rd or the end of the 3rd, or both, depending on context.

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