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

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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