Hi, I am just wondering why there is 24:00 in the AT column for some countries (including Iran, Amman and Santiago) while there is 0:00 elsewhere. Could you please explain it to me? Thank you, Marketa Calabkova
On 5/2/19 7:43 AM, Marketa Calabkova wrote:
I am just wondering why there is 24:00 in the AT column for some countries (including Iran, Amman and Santiago) while there is 0:00 elsewhere.
Sometimes the legislation or other source says midnight at the end of the day, sometimes it says midnight at the start of the day. Using 0:00 or 24:00 lets us follow the source as closely as possible. In a few cases (e.g., "24:00 the last Saturday in March") it's not that easy to switch between 0 and 24, so we might use 24:00 even if the original source uses a more circumlocutory form with 00:00.
On May 3, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
In a few cases (e.g., "24:00 the last Saturday in March") it's not that easy to switch between 0 and 24, so we might use 24:00 even if the original source uses a more circumlocutory form with 00:00.
I.e., "24:00 the last Saturday in March" could be "00:00 the last Sunday in March" in some years and "00:00 the first day of April" in other years?
On 5/3/19 5:40 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
In a few cases (e.g., "24:00 the last Saturday in March") it's not that easy to switch between 0 and 24, so we might use 24:00 even if the original source uses a more circumlocutory form with 00:00. I.e., "24:00 the last Saturday in March" could be "00:00 the last Sunday in March" in some years and "00:00 the first day of April" in other years?
Yes, that's right.
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