The word "midnight" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the moments after 11:59 PM and before 12:00 AM. For example, "We decided to meet at midnight in the park."
Sweeping US surveillance powers used by the National Security Agency expired at midnight after a dramatic showdown in the Senate.
How when his glider hit the ground in occupied France at 16 minutes past midnight on 6 June, shaking up the men inside, everything went dark.
By midnight, after a YouGov poll suggested a 54%-46 54%-46n, the momentum was clearly with the no camp.
After the whiteness and midnight markets of neighbouring El Jadida, the colours were muted.
Although most famous for his movies - among them Midnight Cowboy, Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Marathon Man - he also worked in the theatre, the opera house, in television and as director of innumerable commercials.
The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, joined the talks at midnight, and the UK foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, returned after a few hours' break.
On 30 October, Dionte Greene finished work before midnight to attend a "turn-about" party, where people show up dressed as a different gender.
The bookmaker Ladbrokes, which offered odds of 5-1 last January against the couple getting engaged in 2013, confirmed that it would pay out, even though the announcement came after midnight New Year's Day, Australian time.
Firefighters were containing the blaze and "there is no danger of the fire spreading", Alexander Gavrilov, first deputy director of the Moscow branch of the emergency situations ministry, told journalists at the scene shortly after midnight.
Middleton – unlike Hyde in 1660 – will certainly not have to be smuggled into the palace for a secret midnight marriage and won't face accusations that she has slept with half the court.
Deals are always done five or three or one minute before midnight, it's not unusual that they should go right to the brink".
