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Re: Windows 32-bit

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 08:55 +0000
Message-ID <oRGgtuAU2cWlFwaY@jhall_nospamxx.co.uk> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <sxN5N.46596$AqO5.22600@fx11.iad> <zss7x1cps6VlFwjl@255soft.uk> <uj9sj0$38ddd$1@dont-email.me> <CxNjEfAP5IWlFw9d@jhall_nospamxx.co.uk> <an3ilitnlcet80mq984nuk8402o61jcjd0@4ax.com>

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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).
-- 
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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  Re: Windows 32-bit Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2023-11-17 16:16 +0000
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