Daylight saving time

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by soulfuldog

Do you mean that for the 9th of November, parts of the US use 9/11/15 and others use 11/9/15?

In most of the world 9/11/15 would be November 9, 2015
In the US, it means September 11, 2015.

I am not even going to try to figure times this week.
Other than to say it is 5 o'clock somewhere.

[rem736]

since we are extending this to date formats, the most logical would be yyyy-mm-dd. this has been established as an international standard, by the way. i prefer yyyymmdd just because it is easily sortable as a plain and simple number. no need to designate it as a "date format" in excel or other spreadsheet programs. it is also logically layed out from largest unit to smallest unit. it simply doesn't make sense (numerically) to do set it as mmddyyyy or ddmmyyyy.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by soulfuldog

Do you mean that for the 9th of November, parts of the US use 9/11/15 and others use 11/9/15?

In the context of this discussion, "we USA people" use 11/09/15 for Nov. 9 and other locations (in the world) use 09/11/15.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by rem736

since we are extending this to date formats, the most logical would be yyyy-mm-dd. this has been established as an international standard, by the way. i prefer yyyymmdd just because it is easily sortable as a plain and simple number. no need to designate it as a "date format" in excel or other spreadsheet programs. it is also logically layed out from largest unit to smallest unit. it simply doesn't make sense (numerically) to do set it as mmddyyyy or ddmmyyyy.

But... but... but... that would make sense!

And we can't be having with that.


I agree with you, in principle.

[theducks]

The US Military uses the 24 hour clock

(back in the dark times, When I wore the Uniform )
dates were WRITTEN 27 Oct 2015
except for data processing forms which used a Julian date (sorts properly as ASCII)
I still use those forms on all my computers

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Conventionally, 12PM is midday and 12AM is midnight. But to avoid confusion(!) it's probably best to use 12 noon and 12 midnight instead of AM/PM.

As an American I'm used to 12AM being midnight and 12PM being noon, but logically it would make more sense if 12AM followed 11AM and 12PM followed 11PM.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by theducks

(back in the dark times, When I wore the Uniform )

Which one?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by jhowell

As an American I'm used to 12AM being midnight and 12PM being noon,

That has nothing to do with being American; it's the way the 12h clock is defined to work for everybody .

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by jhowell

As an American I'm used to 12AM being midnight and 12PM being noon, but logically it would make more sense if 12AM followed 11AM and 12PM followed 11PM.

Would it then logically follow that military time should be calculated from 0100 to 2459?

...

They had a reason, you know.
Where would we be if the first hour of the day was the last hour of the PMs?

...

Also it's the same 12 hour clock the whole world uses.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Where would we be if the first hour of the day was the last hour of the PMs?

Daylight Savings Time

[rem736]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Daylight Savings Time

it's actually Daylight Saving Time. no "s" after "Saving".
clever way to bring the discussion back around to the beginning.

[DiapDealer]

Actually ... (he said knowing that no one was really all that interested) ... the 12 o'clocks are neither am NOR pm.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Actually ... (he said knowing that no one was really all that interested) ... the 12 o'clocks are neither am NOR pm.

Where on Earth do you get that idea from? Midnight is 12
A.M, midday is 12 P.M. Always has been, always will be.

[Cinisajoy]

Since it is 5 o'clock somewhere, passing out the drinks.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Where on Earth do you get that idea from? Midnight is 12
A.M, midday is 12 P.M. Always has been, always will be.

I'll allow you to do the research yourself.

Suffice to say that the exact hour is neither AM nor PM. Only everything up to, and after, are.