please help

[serendipity2]

Please help settle a family argument which is getting bigger by the minute!
I just said that last year our supermarket opened at one minute past midnight on christmas eve so that people could get their shopping early, and they said that one minute past midnight christmas eve would acually be christmas day!
I'm so annoyed lol!
Please somebody back me up!
To try and help them understand, I said "so are you telling me that when it gets to 00:01 tonight it doesn't become Sunday 21st december?"
It didn't help though!
Thank you in advance X

[aniani]

1 minute past midnight on Christmas eve is definitely Christmas Day..

[serendipity2]

Ok let me put it another way...is 00:01 24th December Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?

[Aprilis]

Yes, you're right, 0.01am on 24th Dec is Christmas Eve.

[annie0000]

Try telling them that you are going just after minight on Tuesday night - I know what you mean, but that might be easier to explain!

[Aprilis]

Sorry, meant 00:01am.

[serendipity2]

Thank you everyone i knew I was right..maybe I was just saying it wrong but that's what Im not sure about.

[A.Guest]

Each day has a Midday (12 noon), and a Midnight which is at the end of a day. Therefore 00.01am is the beginning of a new day.

What you actually meant to say was that the supermarket opened at 00.01am on the 24th of December (ie one minute past midnight on the 23rd).

Midnight Christmas Eve would arrived 23 hours and 59 minutes later.

I think!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[serendipity2]

So... would saying 'one minute past 12am on Christmas Eve' been a better way of putting it? Or is that just the same as saying one minute past midnight?
If I'd have said one minute past the midnight OF Christmas Eve, that would have been wrong, but the way I said it surely is right. Thanks to all who agree lol.

[A.Guest]

Midnight is the misleading word.

It was in fact the first minute OF Christmas Eve - which of course came just after midnight on the 23rd.


Phew!!!!!!!!

PS - there is no such thing as 12 AM (or 12p.m.). 12 o'clock is either midday (noon) or midnight.

[tigwig]

I don't quite get you!
Your question asks would one minute past midnight on xmas eve be xmas day? YES!
and when its one minute past midnight tonight no it won't be Sunday it will be Monday!
when talking about the supermarket opening earlier you should have said it opened at one minute past midnight on the day before xmas eve or to put it better it opened the very first minute of xmas eve.
God I'm confused now!

[imajenarry]

think maybe people getting confused cos when you say christmas eve you think of the evening. one minute past midnight on christmas eve is christmas eve and stays that way til the following midnight when it then becomes a new day - christmas day as i think someone else has said.