Does midnight Tuesday.........

[jrt]

Does midnight Tuesday mean the start of Tuesday or the end of Tuesday?

This has puzzled me for some time and is one of the reasons for my using either one minute to ... or one minute past ... to avoid the ambiguity.

Is there a hard and fast reason for the answer or just convention? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[phanakapan]

I have always taken it to mean the end of Tuesday. Dunno why.

 

[Talbot]

convention really from mil viewpoint - one day ends at 2359, next starts at midnight.

 

[winship]

In the R.N the term midnight or the time 2400 (as used today in Spanish weather reports) was never used because as you point out it is ambiguous. The rule was/is 2359 or 0001 with the date appended.

 

[Sans Bateau]

Does it only apply to Tuesdays? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[jrt]

No, but it is especially important on Tuesdays. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[MrG_2]

I would say its the midnight after the tuesday evening. If it were the Midnight before Tuesday morning that would probably be Monday midnight, unless other factors come into it such as it leap a leap year, or the clocks going forward or backward. So anything after Monday midnight would be tuesday morning, then you have tuesday daytime, this when we go about our normal daily business, such as work, sailing, you get the drift, thats all followed by tuesday evening where we go to the pub/ eat , or go clubbing if you're that bit younger,Tuesday comes after that when we hit the sack, some before midnight some after.
Then we're into a whole new world of Wednesday morning...
thats a completely new story though...
Sorry about the maundering on and on but hope it helps... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[[3889]]

look at weather forecasts and 0000 is the start of the day, ie the bit between monday and tuesday.
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/charts/animation.html

 

[bob_tyler]

Fair comment but since when has the Met Office been an authority on time?

Has anyone consulted Greenwich Observatory?

 

[nicho]

I believe '00.00 Tuesday' on synoptic charts refers to the evening before i.e. Monday@ midnight.

 

[starboard]

I guess that 0000 tuesday is the same time as 2400 monday?? I know in Air Traffic control we go from 2359 monday to 0001 tuesday, as for that lost minute thats when we all get a chance to relax!!!

Paul.

 

[ShipsWoofy]

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No, but it is especially important on Tuesdays. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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[jrt]

That's not a lost minute, it's a lost two minutes.

R /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[[3889]]

But it says 0000 Tuesday, not monday, then 1200 Tuesday comes next.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Depends if you are rounding up or not...... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif