In article <4174cc02@news.povray.org> , "scott" <sco### [at] spamcom> wrote:

>> The word "midnight" is not ambiguous at all.  It is well defined in
>> every English dictionary.
>
> The problem is that although midnight is defined as "the middle of the
> night", or 12 o'clock, if you say "Tuesday at midnight", it is unclear
> whether you mean the midnight at the beginning of Tuesday, or the midnight
> at the end of Tuesday.

There is only one 12 o'clock in the evening, and it is the one that follows
the 11 o'clock in the evening.  If you wish to discuss the philosophical
aspects of "midnight", please do so in p.off-topic and please do not attempt
to create ambiguity where there absolutely is none.

    Thorsten

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e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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