Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:02:07 -0600
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From: Greg Woolridge <greg.woolridge@TAP.COM>
Subject: Re: is 12:00 AM noon or midnight ?
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To the best of my knowledge, noon has always been 12:00 pm and midnight has
always been 12:00 am, in all situations, not just programming. I think
this is what I was taught waaaaaay back in grade school when I first
learned to tell time.
Greg M. Woolridge
Manager, Study Programming
TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc.
e-mail: greg.woolridge@tap.com
phone: 847-582-2332
fax: 847-582-2403
Peter Crawford
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Please respond
to Peter
Crawford
I was brought up to understand noon and midnight, so
find the concept of 12am and 12pm very difficult !
When asked the question:
"when is 12:00 pm?"
I had to resort to SAS (sad)...... and it produced this log
1 %put %sysfunc( putn( '12:00:00't, timeampm));
12:00:00 PM
2 %put %sysfunc( putn( '24:00:00't, timeampm));
12:00:00 AM
Is this a standard convention ?
Is it the same standard in different applications, eg M$-Office Sun-Java
In French "midi et minuit" eliminates any confusion
Have other languages a simple difinition for 12:00 AM ?
When was any AM/PM standard for noon and midnight introduced ?
awaiting your input with interest
Peter Crawford
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