Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 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.

Calm down! I never said there was any ambiguity with the rules (although it
appears there was), I was only suggesting that you might use the correct
standard in future to be sure of avoiding any ambiguity.