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| From | John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.ms-windows.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.windows7.general, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general |
| Subject | Re: Windows 32-bit |
| Date | 2023-11-19 21:38 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <e6DiMWDfBoWlFw+r@jhall_nospamxx.co.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <uj9sj0$38ddd$1@dont-email.me> <CxNjEfAP5IWlFw9d@jhall_nospamxx.co.uk> <an3ilitnlcet80mq984nuk8402o61jcjd0@4ax.com> <oRGgtuAU2cWlFwaY@jhall_nospamxx.co.uk> <ujdo3p$3u7fg$1@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 4 groups.
In message <ujdo3p$3u7fg$1@dont-email.me>, Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com>
writes
>On 11/19/2023 12:55 AM, John Hall wrote:
>> In message <an3ilitnlcet80mq984nuk8402o61jcjd0@4ax.com>, Char Jackson
>><none@none.invalid> writes
>>> On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 10:13:35 +0000, John Hall
>>><john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In message <uj9sj0$38ddd$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel65
>>>> <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes
>>>>> J. P. Gilliver wrote on 18/11/23 5:04 am:
>>>>>> In message <sxN5N.46596$AqO5.22600@fx11.iad> at Fri, 17 Nov 2023
>>>>>> 11:37:28, Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> writes []
>>>>>>> 38 days until the winter celebration (Monday, December 25, 2023
>>>>>>> 12:00 AM for 1 day).
>>>>>> [] Is "12:00 AM" syntactically valid?
>>>>>
>>>>> Surely one of the '12:00' would be 'AM' .... but whether that is
>>>>> 'Midnight' or 'Midday' ..... Pass!
>>>>
>>>> I often see references to 12 AM and 12 PM, and I'm sometimes left
>>>> uncertain as to whether noon or midnight was meant. Use of the 24-hour
>>>> clock (or simply using the words "noon" and "midnight") avoids any
>>>> ambiguity.
>>>
>>> I don't think I've ever met anyone (until now?) who found 12 AM and
>>>12 PM to be
>>> ambiguous. Interesting.
>>>
>> AM stands for "ante meridiem" and PM for "post meridiem", i.e.
>>before and after midday respectively. But 12 noon is neither before
>>nor after, so logically it should be 12 M. Midnight is both 12 hours
>>before and 12 hours post, but I suppose it would be more logical to
>>call it 12 PM (or maybe 0 AM).
>
>So how is that affected by daylight savings time?
>
>
Not art all, since we are dealing with time as shown on the clock. Even
when daylight savings time isn't in force, noon on the clock rarely
precisely corresponds to when the sun is due south. And of course if you
went by "sun time", places on different longitudes that are currently
within the same time zone would be setting their clocks to different
times, as happened prior to the middle of the 19th century.
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)
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