Thread:Unok/@comment-25985823-20141019140056/@comment-3544775-20141019142328

It airs Wednesday after midnight in Japan. After 24:00 or 00:00 o'clock the day turns, Wednesday 23 hours and 59 minutes is October 8, but 2 mins later 00 hour and 1 minute is already October 9 00:01 AM. Since the show airs at 25:30 (25 hours and 30 mins) and since a day have only 24 hours, 25:30 is effectivly 1:30 on the next day. So October 8, 25:30PM is October 9, 1:30AM. The reason Japan uses 25:30, 26:00, 27:00 and such for hours is so that people to not get confused, since if they say October 9 (Thursday), 1:30Am, some may think it's on Thursday late night and to miss the show by 1 whole day. That's why they use extended hours to more easily understand people at which night they must stay to watch, at the night on Wednesday or at the night of other day.

Otherwise as I said, they also could write it October 7, 49:30, which is October 8, 25:30, which is October 9, 1:30. But since we work with 24 hours a day, we should follow the actual dates.