Japanese 30-hour system for night owl goals?

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There is a lot of confusion/complication around night owl vs early morning goals, and the current system is definitely a compromise that doesn’t work in every situation.

I recently learned about the Japanese 30-hour system, whereby times after midnight but still logically belonging to the previous day are assigned numeric times greater than 24. For example, a subway line which runs from 5am until 2am the next morning might have its hours listed as 0500-2600. Could it be helpful to specify Beeminder goal deadlines in such a fashion? It might be a neat and tidy way to distinguish between early morning and night owl deadlines that didn’t involve an arbitrary cutoff (although I realize there might still be other, internal/backend reasons for needing such a cutoff).

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I rather love this! Might not be obvious the first time you see it, but it would after that, and it makes explaining night owl deadlines a lot easier.

Could it be generalised to early deadlines? If my deadline is 2pm, then maybe 3pm would be -9 the next day?? That seems more confusing/less helpful, so is there a better answer for that?

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