Midnight

Suppose that 00.00. But when it comes to burocracy. You never know)

My intuition says 24:00, but my logic says 00:00.

When you count up to ten you start at 1 and keep going until you reach 9 After that it is "1 in the tens column and start again in the units column". You don't put 10 in the units column, once you go over 9 units, you have one ten.

If you are counting in units of less than one, it is 0.1, 0.2 . . . . 0.9, then 1.0

The minutes and seconds of the hour between midnight and 1 am go from "no hours, no minutes and one second" after the zero of midnight.

There is no 24 - it starts again at zero. Yes, there are 24 hours in a day, but that is the length of time in a day , not the number of hours a specific time is from the day-change point (midnight).

loopylou where I worked it was written thus: 23.59. and then 00.00. we never used 24.00 and I never asked why?

Or perhaps it's just that 'midnight' is an odd way of describing 24.00...

I agree that midnight should mean the middle of the night, which would make the start of 'morning' 6 hours later. It's an odd system!

I think midnight is the middle of the night following the day mentioned i.e. 24:00.

24.00 for me, never seen 00.00 written anywhere! Certainly not when doing night shifts on the ward, was always 24.00 followed by 00.01.
Still valid in the Tuesday afternoon as far as I can see.

So far, that's two who think that midnight is 00:00:00, and two who think it's 24:00:00.

If it expires at midnight then it's still valid in the afternoon.

I'd be driving on the Tuesday afternoon, anyway.

So if your licence expired at midnight on Tuesday, would you drive on Tuesday afternoon or not?

Me neither.

I worked in mental health, with demented elderly in a Residential setting. All our forms and paperwork used the twenty four hour clock. When filling in the night check records, the new day started at 00.00. I've always understood the new day to start at midnight, that being 00.00. In all my working life I have never seen 24.00 written for midnight.