[Python-ideas] bool(datetime.time(0, 0))

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:49 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>> My understanding is that 24:00 hours is only really used by the military to avoid misunderstanding
>>> over the actual day they're talking about. The night of 5th/6th June 1944 springs to my mind.  I'll
>>> happily be corrected.
>>
>> It's in common use in Germany, e.g. for describing opening hours.
> 
> Properly supporting 24:00 timestamps in datetime module is actually a
> more interesting issue than what bool(time(0)) should be.  See
> http://bugs.python.org/issue10427

Just to clarify: 24:00 is used when describing times, but not in
timestamps (those use 00:00 and the next day). E.g. it's common
to write: "open 00:00-24:00" or "open 18:00-24:00".

I've never seen anything like "2011-12-31 24:00" in Germany,
but Google suggests that it's in common use in Asia:

https://www.google.de/search?q=%222011-12-31+24:00%22

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