Good one, Brad. :)
Katherine, I think you meant "about *nothing*". ;)
Maggie
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Katherine Casey <
fluffernutter.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You know, I didn't believe them when they said
Wikimedians could fight
about *anything*...and then I read this thread.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Newyorkbrad <newyorkbrad(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Are you saying that our extensive discussion of
the meaning of 0000
counts
for naught?
Newyorkbrad
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)frontier.com
wrote:
> On 10/30/2013 8:39 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
>
>> On 10/30/2013 11:20 AM, Risker wrote:
>>
>>> Just to clarify, since 0000 UTC is a confusing time for most of us
>>>
>> {{cn}}
>>
>> I've heard that said very often (that 00:00 is somehow confusing to
many
>> people), but I've yet to actually
see someone being actually confused
by
>> it.
>>
>> There is exactly one minute labeled 00:00 in every day, and that is
>> unambiguously the first of the day.
>>
> It ought to be straightforward, yes, since in numeric sequences 00:00
> clearly comes before other possible time values, and therefore is not
> nearly as confusing as, say, 12:00 (is noon AM and midnight PM, or is
it
> the other way around?). However, it is
definitely possible to overthink
> things, and as this conversation demonstrates, of all the faults of
which
our
community is capable, overthinking things is one of the easiest for
us
> to fall into.
>
> --Michael Snow
>
>
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