Re: Timestamp edit code problem with midnight as 00:00:00 but I want 24:00:00

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

2400 (24 hundred) hours is midnight at the end of the day. 0001 is the
beginning of the day.

On 5/17/07, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In discussions here it was said that 00:00:00 and 24:00:00 are exactly
> the same point in time; that is, midnight,  However the next comment was
> that they are not really the same because if you had asked Betty Boop to
> meet you today at 24:00:00 she'd be waiting for you tonight at midnight,
> not last night at midnight.  Which raised the next question:  What does
> the military do?  Do they have such a time as twenty four hundred
> hours?   Is zero hour really midnight?
>
>   I guess the conclusion is that life has small conflictions and that is
> why we need context in our lives?
>
> Buck wrote:
> >>> 00.00.00 is the end of today and 24.00.00 is the beginning of tomorrow
> >>> but you still can't compare them, i.e.
> >>>
> >> Shouldn't that be the other way around?
> >>
> >
> > Yes, you're right.
> >
> >
> >>>    stamp = z'2007-05-16-24.00.00';
> >>>    if stamp = z'2007-05-17-00.00.00';
> >>>      dsply 'unexpectedly equal';
> >>>    endif;
> >>>
> >> Just to be clear, the dsply line will be executed, right?  I think that's
> >> what I remember from the previous discussion.  That seems really wacky
> >> .... a = b, but a - 1 <> b - 1.
> >>
> >
> > The DSPLY does NOT execute on my V5R4.
> >
>
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