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Just wondering what is the correct time?
My insurance is worded and no time is stated.
What time is midnight 7th January?
I thought it meant 0000 (early morning) start of the 7th?
Old man is telling me it is 2359 (night) of the 7th? as they use the 12hr system.
Day starts on midnight I believe. So midnight 7th would be the instant the 7th starts.
I thought they typically gave times of a minute before or a minute after to avoid exactly this confusion.
That's what I thought curiousyellow.
E.g. 0200 hrs 7th Jan I wouldn''t be insured.
I do know my insurance started 0001 8th Jan 2014.
Midnight is 0000 hrs to me - a new day e.g. 0001 is one minute past midnight on the 7th.
Onzadog, it would have made (my) life a bit easier e.g. 2359 6th but then I would be losing a day of insurance.
I would have thought midnight at the end of the 7th
Best check with them, eh?
You can't have midnight at the end of the 7th can you?
I must be mad as I was thinking 2359 is the last time on the 7th and then when it hits 0000 it is the 8th?
Ok john-drummer - I'll ring the insurance Co. when they awake tomorrow.
Thanks for the help.
Better pay my road tax online! (wasn't allowed to pay in advance - crazy).
It's whichever suits them, not you.
I'd expect that if the insurance said it ran from 8/1/15 to 7/1/16 it'd be inclusive of both those dates, and a successive policy would then run from 8/1/16 to 7/1/17. Otherwise, y'know, it's not an annual policy then is it, it's 364 days (leap years aside).
I do know my insurance started 0001 8th Jan 2014.
Then a) that backs up what I've just said and b) it ran out a year ago so an extra day is neither here nor there really. (-:
Wot Cougar says.
Exact midnight is neither day (just like noon is neither morning nor afternoon)
It runs out at 23:59 on the 7th.
Crankboy is right, 00:00 is the start of the next day
I'd follow Cougar's logic. However, Scotroutes is right: 00:00 is neither the day before nor the day after.
Which is why in all the years I spent drafting contracts midnight and noon were always avoided.
this nearly caught me out a couple of weeks ago ithought the latter and renewed with a different company ,luckily started it a day earlier and got an email from previous insurer saying it had ended, 24 hr ealier than i thought
Call them if in doubt, but midnight on the 7th to me would suggest it's not insured until 00:01 on the 8th.
Ok john-drummer - I'll ring the insurance Co. when they awake tomorrow.
What's the rush? You've got a few days yet