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Originally Posted by Cliche
Tuesday at midnight would indicate the day, and then the occurrence, therefore, Tuesday past 11:59:59, or Wednesday morning. Grammatical structure is important when considering this, and is why english is sometimes better than other languages.
Also, it's a network maintenance interval.
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Correct, but technically speaking midnight is 12:00:00, and technically speaking 12:00:00 is the start of the day. 11:59:59 is the end of the day.
Technically speaking Tuesday at midnight is 12:00:00 or 00:00:00 if you prefer military time. Thus making my words mean that I was doing maintenance 24 hours before I meant to say. However, I don't know of many people (save the one co-worker) who thinks of it in this manner.