Is Tomorrow at 00:00 Midnight Tonight?

[UKSBD]

Is Tomorrow at 00:00 Midnight Tonight?

 

[fisicx]

It the transition across 00:00:00 that marks the beginning of tomorrow.

This means today ends as you get to 00:00:00 and tomorrow begins as you go past 00:00:00

 

[AllUpHere]

It the transition across 00:00:00 that marks the beginning of tomorrow.

This means today ends as you get to 00:00:00 and tomorrow begins as you go past 00:00:00

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't think that answers the question. Which is it? Is it tonight or tomorrow night?

 

[UKSBD]

I'll rephrase the question

If the match starts at 00:00 tomorrow and it's 18:45 now, does it start in about 5 hours 15 minutes?
(I assume so)

 

[Alan]

The point is there is an infinitesimally small point in time when it is neither today or tomorrow, spooky eh!

Or in maths speak, the limit of today of time, as time approaches midnight, is 0.

Which means that today can get as close as it likes to zero i.e 23:59:59.9999999* but not 0 => 0:0:0 is tomorrow

Obvious when you think about it.

 

[DavidWH]

In the Navy, we never used 00:00, either 23:59 or 00:01... saves this confusion

 

[OMGVape]

00:00 can’t be tomorrow because as soon as you get there it becomes today.

 

[UKSBD]

Am I going to miss the match :-(

 

[Thermodynamic Man]

I'll rephrase the question

If the match starts at 00:00 tomorrow and it's 18:45 now, does it start in about 5 hours 15 minutes?
(I assume so)

You assume correctly. No you won't miss the match

 

[MikeJ]

In the Navy, we never used 00:00, either 23:59 or 00:01... saves this confusion

I preferred Village People's version

We did a similar thing when doing night work on sites - never use midnight as a time to log an event.

The Edinburgh Festival day starts at around 4am. There's so many late shows they find it easier that way. If you buy tickets for Tuesday at 2am, you're going on Wednesday morning.

 

[KM-Tiger]

I think the answer is nobody knows whether 00:00 belongs to today, tomorrow or yesterday.

To digress, this is a well known problem in calculating how many days have elapsed (or will elapse) since an event. You cannot use 24 hour periods as when seen from 00:01, an event at 23:59 occurred one day ago, even though only 2 minutes have elapsed.

The solution, for anyone that wants to tangle with this, is to convert the date/time to the Julian calendar. Julian days have a number that is an integer, which you can then add or subtract from/to another Julian day number.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

WE had 8 bells at midnight in the RN in oldentimes, well before this new fangled time was important

 

[Newchodge]

I'll rephrase the question

If the match starts at 00:00 tomorrow and it's 18:45 now, does it start in about 5 hours 15 minutes?
(I assume so)

The match is on tomorrow. The first part of it is at 00:00. The second half starts tomorrow at 00:45. If it were 24 hours later the match would not be on tomorrow.

 

[Jeff FV]

WE had 8 bells at midnight in the RN in oldentimes, well before this new fangled time was important

Ah, but was midnight Zulu time, or midnight local time?

 

[Scott-Copywriter]

Technically, midnight (00:00) is the start of a new day. It then runs from 00:00 to 11:59:59.

So within a given day, the midnight of that day has already happened, and the one coming up is the midnight of tomorrow. However, we tend to think of the upcoming midnight to be the midnight of the day we're in as it seems to make a little more sense that way.

 

[UKSBD]

Although I appreciate all these technical replies, I only wanted to know when the bloody match started

After all that, I went to bed early and missed it anyway :-(

 

[GURUCLOUD]

For maintenance notifications we always use 23:59 or 00:01 to avoid any doubt.