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On November 14, I (Mark Brader) wrote:
>>> Which midnight on that date -- 00:00 or 24:00?
And Gerard S. wrote:
>> There is no such time as 24:00, unless you allow 9:60 as a time,
And I pointed out why this was wrong. Now Matthew Russotto suddenly
comes in with:
> 24:00 is acceptable in the special case of the end of a range.
There is no such restriction in sections 5.3 and 5.3.2 of the FDIS
(on which voting terminated on 2000-12-05), which is what I actually
have. If Matthew has the actual standard and it says something
different, I'd like to know what.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "The last time I trusted you, we had Mark."
msb@vex.net -- Jill, "Home Improvement" (B.K. Taylor)
My text in this article is in the public domain.
On November 14, I (Mark Brader) wrote:
>>> Which midnight on that date -- 00:00 or 24:00?
And Gerard S. wrote:
>> There is no such time as 24:00, unless you allow 9:60 as a time,
And I pointed out why this was wrong. Now Matthew Russotto suddenly
comes in with:
> 24:00 is acceptable in the special case of the end of a range.
There is no such restriction in sections 5.3 and 5.3.2 of the FDIS
(on which voting terminated on 2000-12-05), which is what I actually
have. If Matthew has the actual standard and it says something
different, I'd like to know what.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "The last time I trusted you, we had Mark."
msb@vex.net -- Jill, "Home Improvement" (B.K. Taylor)
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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