Re: Midnight and noon in agendas

[Christian Schlauer <cs-muelleimer-rubbish.bin@arcor.de>]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> However, it can be useful to schedule something at 24:21 or even at
> 26:00 or so. because if you put such a date on your agenda for the
> next day, you might find out too late....

I see the problem, but I don't like these time formats at all. I'd
prefer if the agenda would show me things that are scheduled "early"
the next day (before 06:00, for example, should be configurable) on
the previous day already (and on the actual day).

Also, 26:00 is against the rules ;-)

,----[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 ]
| hh refers to an hour between 00 and 24, where 24 is only used to
| notate the midnight at the end of a calendar date
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,----[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#Midnight_00:00_and_24:00 ]
| Time-of-day notations beyond 24:00 (such as 24:01 or 25:59) are
| neither commonly used nor covered by any relevant standards,
| although they have been seen on rare occasions in Japan.
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Christian Schlauer