does it happen at midnight? or when you go to sleep and wake up? just curious what everyone else thinks
2006-10-25 20:01:20 · 19 answers · asked by MnKLmT 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Excellent question! I say this because I have been debating with my friends for years about this matter.
We used to be out for a birthday and at midnight everyone would say happy birthday. But to me it never felt right. I always felt the new day should start at 6am the next morning when its light outside.
I am relieved to see that someone else also considers such trivial matters. I am not the only one.
2006-10-25 20:08:16 · answer #1 · answered by stymie1970 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depending on which branch of Judaism, some say sunset ends the day and starts the next, some say 6 pm is end of day and starts the next.
I am not Jewish, but I kind of vacillate between midnight being the day's end and the next one's beginning, and occasionally I base it on when I go to sleep as the day ending, and when I wake up as the day beginning. But that is no good, and I sometimes works several days without sleep, so I'll go with midnight.
2006-10-25 20:05:26 · answer #2 · answered by Ragnarok 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you can answer this a number of different ways.
1) Scientific - after 23 hours and 58 minutes roughly the Earth completes one rotation and thus a new day starts.
2) Personally - When one wakes up after sleep it's a new day.
3) Philosophically - There are no such things as days. OR Life is just one long day.
4) Smart alecly - Well on Mars a day is....on Alpha Centaria a day is...
5) etc.
2006-10-25 20:05:03 · answer #3 · answered by X M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a night owl and I stay awake all night long. I wake up at noon (12pm) and I don't go to sleep til about 4am. But when you are talking about a calendar day..Yes a normal day ends at midnight. Because one minute after midnight is the next calendar day.
2006-10-25 20:06:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
midnight and 1 second is the beginning of a new day
2006-10-25 20:02:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
at midnight is when a day ends & the next begins at 12:01
2006-10-25 20:02:49 · answer #6 · answered by momatendofrope 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Midnight. I work the 3rd shift. So, I come in on one day ( at 11PM) and end on a new day. Believe me, it's confusing at first. But, you learn to look at the clock and say- " It's Thursday now and not Wednesday anymore."
2006-10-25 20:06:57 · answer #7 · answered by CorinneI 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me it's when I go to bed and wake up. Even if I don't go to bed until 9:00 AM, I still see that as the day before whenever I wake up later that day.
2006-10-25 23:41:45 · answer #8 · answered by Valkyrie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for me it ends when I go to sleep, and a new day begins when I wake up
2006-10-25 20:03:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Midnight. You can stay up for three days straight, but that doesn't mean it's still Wednesday!
2006-10-25 20:02:33 · answer #10 · answered by legallyblond2day 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋