error on VMBU page

on the VMBU page Just above the table there is this text

Peak: 0am - Midnight Off-peak: Midnight - 0am

Should this not say:

Peak: 12pm - Midnight Off-peak: Midnight - 12pm ?

could be a bit confusing?

You think that's funny last week I happened to look up some definition of midday/midnight/am/pm and discovered some weird "facts".

Strictly midday is neither am nor pm and as its just midday and thus neither ante (before) nor post (after) noon.

Strictly midnight is 12 hours before and after noon so could be BOTH am and pm.
Traditionally it would just be midnight. The American NIST standardised on the words rather than numbers/am/pm/.

The times and days of 00:01 to 23:59 are the only ones that are both technically and legally clear. Legal matters tend to avoid midnight as its not clear which day it is in.

Most clocks now call midday 12:00 pm BUT the US Government printing rules call it 12am; so no room for confusion there.

Strictly midnight is 12 hours before and after noon so could be BOTH am and pm.

'tis far better to use the 24 hour clock, so that 1200hrs is midday and 2400hrs is used to define midnight at the end of the day, and 0000hrs to define midnight at the beginning of the day.

The use of 0001hrs and 2359hrs, are not legally correct to define midnight, you cannot ignore two seconds.

Legal matters tend to avoid midnight as its not clear which day it is in.

Absolutely, when did you ever hear of a lawyer giving away two seconds of their time for free!

BUT the US Government printing rules call it 12am

Technically they are correct, pm does not begin until time has passed by the smallest amout beyond 1200am

Hi Conor,

Is that on Unlimited? If it is, then technically there's no peak/off peak times, so you could argue that either is the full 24 hours of the day.

Interesting thoughts on midnight though - I'd always assumed that it was 0am - the moment it hits midnight, it becomes the morning.

It has been suggested on the Community forums that the usage for unlimited should be split into the normal Plusnet peak and off-peak time zones. If a user is considering moving from unlimited to say Pro to get the better traffic prioritisation he would at least know what his peak time usage was.

We're looking at getting the usage split in exactly that way. At the moment though everything will be displayed in Peak on Unlimited.