Re: 24-hour vs. 12-hour time, ambiguity, and abbreviations (was Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster)

[John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>]

The Wanderer writes:
> Wherever you need to specify midnight in a form where specifying any
> other time would get the "AM"/"PM"/"M"(eridiem) abbreviation.

> To have a two-letter abbreviation for midnight but a one-letter one
> for noon might be acceptable, although it would feel lopsided to me,
> but just offhand I don't know of any suitable candidate to be that
> two-letter abbreviation. Again, do you have any suggestions?

Why abbreviate at all?  It's been a long time since we stopped needing
to save bytes.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA