On 08/14/14 06:00 am, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Estimated delivery 8/15/2014 12:00 am

Apparenty they will deliver it at midnight. That is devotion.

Either that or a big international company doesn't know what 12 am
means.


I'm not certain what 12 am means.

11:59 am or 12:01 pm would be better choices.

Most of us learned that in 5th grade or before. 12 AM is midnight. 12
PM is noon. There would be less confusion in the world with a 24 hour
clock. We all know that 00:00 is 24:00

Then you learned wrong: the "M" in "AM" and "PM" is "meridiem" =
"midday" = "noon"; the "A" and "P" are "ante" (= "before") and "post" (=
"after"), respectively. So 12:00 (using the 12-hour clock) is either
noon or midnight, and 12:00 AM is twelve hours before noon and 12:00 PM
is twelve hours after noon. Using "12:00 PM" to mean "noon" is nonsense.
"12 noon," or "12:00 noon," or simply "noon" or "midday" are the only
proper/logical/sensible ways to designate what you are telling us is
"12:00 PM."

Get with the program: 24-hour clock, metric weights and measures, and
dates given as yyyy/mm/dd.

Perce