[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Guido van Rossum]

The 12:00 notation is US-centric. Or, perhaps, common in Anglophone
countries. The rest of the world does not use the AM/PM conventions and
calls midnight 00:00.


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:

> Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>
>> For me, it is the fraction of the day that passed or distance from
>> midnight and in any case fundamentally some kind of number expressed in a
>> Babylonian base-60 notation.
>>
>
> Yes, and that number is conventionally written as
> "12:00", which is *obviously* equal to zero... er,
> what?
>
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> Greg
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