Midnight is not the addittive identity of points in time. There is no additive identity because there is no addition operation. You're confusing the ``time`` type, with the ``timedelta`` type, which represents a duration, and does have 0-minutes as an additive identity.

midnight is not, nor has it ever been, the "zero-time", it's simply a point whose typical representation contains some 0s. It is no more Falsey than the origin (0, 0) in the cartesian coordinate system is Falsey.

You win: I was confusing those things! I was thinking times were treated as a timedelta ranging from 0 to 23 hours 59...

How is "midnight" an additive identity? It's not a time delta. "+0 hours" is an additive identity. (And if Python's time library doesn't distinguish between absolute and relative times, that's a design flaw.)

That's like saying "north" is an additive identity on a compass. It's not; "+0° clockwise" is an additive identity.

To take it from the same James Coglan -> "You can't add midnight to 3-o'clock in the same way you can't add London to Chicago."

As far as I understand from reading that whole thread, this is, ironically, precisely why local midnight evaluates to False. They left in an escape hatch to support the illogical idea of addition.