On 12/13/2016 04:24 PM, Tim Parenti wrote:
The legal distinction just raises the interesting point about how /we/ would represent that timestamp in modernity.
I installed the attached to try to document this. This version of the commentary avoids the neologism "24:59". Anyway, thanks for bringing up this point of confusion; this one is a new one for me. I suppose a similar thing could occur at the *start* of a day. That is, on Saturday at 23:59..., instead of jumping back to Saturday at 23:00, the clock could jump "back" to Sunday at 23:00, then continue on through Sunday at 00:00, 01:00, ..., 23:00, and finally repeat the hour of Sunday at 23:00. Although this seems even less likely than what Spain did in 1918, one never knows what politicians will do....