benc@hawaga.org.uk said:

shifting the topic slightly, I've noticed that FM Osaka lists their programme times sometimes as times even later than 2400 (which I intuitively but perhaps incorrectly interpret as meaning tomorrow)

It's common practice in the broadcasting industry to use "midnight Tuesday night", "1 am Tuesday night", and so on. In the US, the standard (according to the company that does the Nielsen Ratings) is to change the date at 04:59:59 local time; prior to that, it's "Tuesday late night", after that, it's "Wednesday morning". It's rather a headache for the engineers that the marketeers think that way - particularly on the nights when Daylight Saving Time goes in or out of effect. I've seen that done by simply ignoring the change when it happens (at 0200 in the US), and then adjusting the schedule at "end of broadcast day" at 0500. -- 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin KENNY GE Corporate Research & Development kennykb@crd.ge.com P. O. Box 8, Bldg. K-1, Rm. 5B36A Schenectady, New York 12301-0008 USA