Only happened to me once when I was in high school, so 1988 or so. I took an afternoon nap and woke up around 7:00 PM. I thought it was 7:00 AM and rushed into my sisters room (she drove) telling her we were late for school! We all had a good laugh at my expense.

The former disgruntled cop in me says that this person probably should not be caring for your son. Just my opinion.

When people say e.g. "Monday at midnight", I have to ask "the first one or the second one?" Every day has two midnights, one at the beginning and one at the end.

And I often forget whether noon is 12 AM or PM. (It's PM, but that feels wrong to me.)

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Originally posted by Eponym:
When people say e.g. "Monday at midnight", I have to ask "the first one or the second one?" Every day has two midnights, one at the beginning and one at the end.

Informally, yes. It's common in casual conversation to refer to midnight as either very early in the morning of a given day as well as very late in the night of the same given day, depending on the context, and thus it sometimes requires further clarification to denote which one they mean.

But formally, no. Officially, a new day starts at "the first measurable moment after midnight", which would be 12:01 am or 12:00:01 am, depending on how precise the time notations you're using are. The new day then runs through midnight that night.

So there's only one official midnight per day, at the very end of the day. "Monday at midnight" would formally be very late Monday night, just as it rolls into Tuesday morning. But whoever you're talking to may not know that, so don't assume.

The 24 hour clock ("military time") handily solves this with the use of 0:00 and 24:00. Both refer to "midnight", and can even refer to the same midnight, but it lets you know the exact time frame they mean when paired with a day/date. While they're both informally "Monday at midnight", "Monday at 0:00" is the transition between Sunday night and Monday morning, whereas "Monday at 24:00" is Monday night into Tuesday morning (and the same thing as "Tuesday at 0:00").

No... but I got bit by the daylight savings time change once. I walked in Church, the congregation was singing, I joined in...
When the song finished the benediction was given we all left. I didn't even get to sit down!


Had my best friends new city girl girlfriend invited for Sunday dinner once, by 3:00 the food was cold and still no guest so my wife called her. She tried to educate my farmer's daughter wife that us hicks were wrong, the noon meal was "Lunch" and the evening meal was Dinner, she planned to come at 6:00PM. Then she had the nerve to say they she would not be coming at all because warmed over pasta wouldn't be any good. She was never invited back again. Folks, we might be hicks and we might be wrong but anyone around here knows Sunday Dinner is at 1:00PM, right after church, with just enough time to run home and change the kids out of their Sunday best, and no one has ever been invited to Sunday supper that I know of.

I've experienced it a few times after all-nighters...whether at play or with work, but mostly play since a certain amount of imbibing was generally involved. But not always so, as with marathon gaming sessions back in the day.

I also will admit that even in my younger days, after a 24-hour straight workday I'm definitely not immune to some amount of time disorientation.

Yes, twice,
Surprised?

I have been 24 hours early.
I used to work for that big entertainment company in central Florida.
My department worked a 10 hour day 4 days a week. My work week was Wednesday through Saturday.
I usually picked up at least one over time shift a week some times two.
Well I showed up on a Monday instead of a Tuesday. Needless to say we were short handed that Monday anyway, so I stayed.
I also ended up working the Tuesday I was supposed to work giving me a 60 hour week.
The nice thing was I still had one day off with a nice pay check that week.

I woke up 5 minutes before my alarm went off, turned off the alarm clock before it went off, showered, dressed for work, and was about to eat breakfast when I realized I would’ve been 6 hours early.

Apparently, I was dreaming the part about waking up before my alarm and woke up in the middle of the dream and accepted it as reality. I haven’t ussd an actual alarm clock in over a decade so this was 10+ years ago.