Minuit (of the Former French crumb Nuit ) is the hour to which finishes the day, and begins a news, in the majority of the Occidental cultures.

Notations

In the marking system of the hours over 12 midnight, midnight is the last hour; it thus is sometimes noted 24:00 and generally 00:00 .

In the marking system over 12 noon, more used in the Anglo-Saxon countries S, midnight is noted 12:00 a.m. , since it is the morning, therefore before midday (a.m.: handle meridiem ).

Traditions

Midnight is the moment very awaited during the Réveillon of New Year's Eve: one embraces oneself, one listens to sound the twelve strokes of midnight (in Spain, one eats twelve grapes, with each stroke of midnight sounding with the chime), one Telephone with his family and his Friendly S (or one sends SMS), one draws from the Fireworks.

Christmas

The Midnight mass is the traditional mass of the Catholique S which precedes the day by Christmas, at the time of the Réveillon of Christmas.

One sings Christian Minuit there .

Heure limits

In the tale of Charles Perrault, Cendrillon is by the magic of her Godmother-fairy avoided of a dress splendid and equipped with a Carrosse servants and slippers of glass who will live until the twelfth stroke of midnight.

Often, the parents grant to the teenagers the “late pass”: authorization to leave the evening late, on the condition of returning before midnight.

magic and alarming Hour

Midnight is also the hour of the transformations, of the Sabbaths of Sorcière S and others wolves-garous.

It is also the “hour of the crime” in the detective novels.

The novelist Stephen King published a collection of fantastic news and terror Four past Midnight . In French this news was published in two volumes Minuit 2 & Minuit 4 .

Quotation

Other uses of the word

The Couleur Bleu of midnight is defined by the components RVB (red, green, blue) of the additive Synthèse (25, 25,112). In Data-processing, this color belongs to the standardized list of the colors and is named .

The color Blue of midnight:

Editions of Midnight

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Zh-yue: 半夜