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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: 12 noon/midnight
Message-ID: <759@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 17:14:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  9 17:14:57 1983
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I was going to stay out of the 1200 question, but I couldn't pass up the
argument by Patrick Wyant.

First, Pat, Wwhen I learned to count, they told me there was a zero.  And
when I joined the military they told me that there was no such time
as 2400, that 1 minute after 2359 was 0000.  And I kept all my records that
way, and I got promoted  (whoops, that might bring comments on military
promotions for incompetence....oh, anyway).  

According to the books I read, the 20th Century began at midnight, the
morning of 1/1/1900.  And the 21st Century will begin at midnight, the
night of 12/31/1999.

This all leads up to saying:  your argument makes no sense to me, as it 
conflicts with all that I was taught.
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