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Is midnight, today or tomorrow? - Leigha - Jan 20, 2019
I noticed this question on sciforums earlier today, and found it curious. If midnight is considered ''middle of the night,'' wouldn't it be considered, ''today?'' Does tomorrow begin at 12:00:01 AM, then? I've always assumed so, but then some answered that midnight is tomorrow, in actuality. I think midnight is still today, and ''tomorrow'' starts at just one second past midnight. What do you think?
This would really screw up the Cinderella tale.
RE: Is midnight, today or tomorrow? - Syne - Jan 20, 2019
Midnight is the next day. It's the moment when any digital calendar changes to the next date.
Magic seems to care more about rhyming than the date.
RE: Is midnight, today or tomorrow? - Leigha - Jan 20, 2019
I've never noticed, the calendar date changes at precisely midnight.
RE: Is midnight, today or tomorrow? - stryder - Jan 21, 2019
In regards to the forum software and computers, 12pm is 00:00 (24hr clock is used by default) so midnight is definitely the next day (as that's when the counter resets)
Time itself is an number of asynchronous instances of potentially infinite re-occurance. When it hits 12pm it's only 12pm for that 1 second (or whatever the smallest measurement is being used) after that point any extra time is additive to a past time occurance. Namely 12:01pm was 12pm and 1 minute, our timing measurements never measure "NOW" they measure how many increments of "THEN" have passed leading to what is presumed to be the present/future time.
RE: Is midnight, today or tomorrow? - Leigha - Jan 21, 2019
(Jan 21, 2019 06:28 AM)stryder Wrote: In regards to the forum software and computers, 12pm is 00:00 (24hr clock is used by default) so midnight is definitely the next day (as that's when the counter resets)
Time itself is an number of asynchronous instances of potentially infinite re-occurance. When it hits 12pm it's only 12pm for that 1 second (or whatever the smallest measurement is being used) after that point any extra time is additive to a past time occurance. Namely 12:01pm was 12pm and 1 minute, our timing measurements never measure "NOW" they measure how many increments of "THEN" have passed leading to what is presumed to be the present/future time.
So, midnight begins the next 24 hour cycle of the new day?
Why am I so unaware?
