Re: Student proposal deadline.

On Saturday 09 April 2011 02:43:33 am Ersin Akinci wrote:
> It seems like the mistake is on me; actually, I think that Martin was
> providing a great heads up by saying that the deadline was at
> midnight rather than the actual deadline, which was in fact 11 AM
> PST. I got confused, however, and thought that this meant midnight
> April 9th, i.e., pitch black outside at the very end of April 8th.
> At least, this is the standard usage of the term "midnight" where I
> am from, but I've looked it up the term and I see that it's
> ambiguous. It refers generally to the transition between night and
> day.

So, what are you saying, that the term midnight, April 8th, meant: pitch
black outside at the very end of April 7th?

That is an odd usage to me, also. I guess going by a 24 hour clock (in
C ;-), midnight is 00:00:00 (as opposed to 24:00:00) so it would be the
next day, but I've never encountered a situation where "midnight, April
8th, meant: pitch black outside at the very end of April 7th".

I'm just curious, what do most people think? Is this country
specific--I mean maybe US people think my way, and people in some other
countries think differently? (Or maybe it is programming language
specific? ;-)

How is the IRS deadline for income taxes specified? I know it is (in
general terms) the end of the day on Monday, April 18th, not the end of
the day on Sunday, April 17th.

BTW, I'm just trying to learn, not start an argument.

Randy Kramer
Received on Sat Apr 9 13:06:29 2011