Re: Bug in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/HTTP/Date.pm near line 268 or 278

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Tom Christiansen writes:
 >     MILITARY	STANDARD
 > 
 >     00:00	12:00pm 	(Midnight)
 >     00:01	12:01am
 >      1:00	 1:00am
 >     11:59	11:59am
 >     12:00	12:00am		(Noon)

.. I have never heard noon referred to as 12am.  My experience (24
years as an American) has been that 12:00am is midnight, and 12:00pm
is noon.

  Some quick tests with my Casio digital watch (is that arguing from
authority, or merely illustrating what many people would use as a
guideline ?) reveals that the transition (indicated in 24 hr clock
time) from 11:59:59 to 12:00:00 also marks the transition from AM to
PM, while the transition from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00 also marks the
transition from one date to the next, and from PM to AM.

  So, while philosophically, there may be arguments that the minute of
midnight is actually the last minute of the day, and so on, I feel
that the majority of Americans would expect 00:00:00-00:00:59 to be
the first minute of the day, and hence, "in the AM".  Besides, isn't
that more consistent with 0-based counting?  

...AlexJB
alexjb@cnet.com

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