*- On 18 Mar, Wayne Topa wrote about Re: help me to undertand GMT time
In reply to:Colin Telmer
Quoting Colin Telmer([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it
changes to
00:00:00
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 3/11/99 11:31:55 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One question: is midnite 2400 hrs or hrs? Or does it matter?
Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it changes to
00:00:00.
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it changes
to
00:00:00.
Midnight is 2400 hours. After 24:00:00 it changes to 00:00:01
I'm as authoritative on this subject as you are, so who's correct?
Here's a solid
Subject: Re: help me to undertand GMT time
Date: Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 04:14:18PM -0500
In reply to:Colin Telmer
Quoting Colin Telmer([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59
NO, that was a late Latin thing-- when the Leigons came home from the
Frankish territories, they introduced the idea of merde diem, or sh*tty
day, the regular Roman couldn't pronounce merde, so it became meri. How's
that for folk entymology? :)
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Goerzen writes:
By your logic, 12:01 PM is 12 hours and one minute after noon.
Can't be, because PM means in the post meridiem half of the day, and 12
hours and 1 minute after noon is in the ante meridiem half of the next day.
Thus it works for those who do not understand zero. The correct
On 10 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote:
If it is 12:00 pm GMT it is 7:00am EST (12 - 5).
12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight, as is 12:00 am.
Better yet, use 24 hour notation. Timezones are confusing enough without
the am-pm nonsense.
As I recall learning a LONG time ago, noon is
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 09:00:57AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
Agreed... where do these threads come from? lack of linux related
problems to stimulate your minds... Sorry, I just read the whole thread
with amusement. Anyway, put it this way:
Midnight Noon
please let this thread DIE!
-vinny
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 09:00:57AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
Agreed... where do these threads come from? lack of linux related
problems to stimulate your minds... Sorry, I just read the whole thread
with amusement. Anyway, put it this way:
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote:
please let this thread DIE!
I'd agree with that too.
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At 10:19 PM 3/11/99 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
On 10 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote:
If it is 12:00 pm GMT it is 7:00am EST (12 - 5).
12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight, as is 12:00 am.
Better yet, use 24 hour notation. Timezones are confusing enough without
the am-pm nonsense.
As I
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote:
please let this thread DIE!
I'd agree with that too.
Yeah, let it die!
Anyone agreeing with this?
:)
Eric
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Edward Kear wrote:
At 10:19 PM 3/11/99
If it is 12:00 pm GMT it is 7:00am EST (12 - 5).
12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight, as is 12:00 am.
Better yet, use 24 hour notation. Timezones are confusing enough without
the am-pm nonsense.
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On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 18:16 (-0600), John Hasler wrote:
If it is 12:00 pm GMT it is 7:00am EST (12 - 5).
12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight, as is 12:00 am.
I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon (think about 12:01pm).
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I wrote:
12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight...
Pann McCuaig writes:
I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon
PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12 hours
after noon, or midnight.
think about 12:01pm
One minute after noon. Not the same thing (though 00:01PM
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wrote:
12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight...
Pann McCuaig writes:
I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon
PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12 hours
after noon, or midnight.
No. By your logic, 12:01 PM is 12
This is a goofy topic, but, what the hey
I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon
PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12 hours
after noon, or midnight.
By that logic, 12:01pm would be 12 hours and 1 minute after noon, or 1 minute
after midnight. :)
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:17:02PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wrote:
12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight...
Pann McCuaig writes:
I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon
PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is
In a message dated 3/11/99 10:48:52 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
12:00 PM is noon, because the time switches from AM to PM at noon.
Simple, eh?
John Hasler is correct. The point is there is NO 12 am or 12 pm. As he
explained, am means 'ante meridiem'. This
At 09:03 PM 3/10/1999 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Say noon and midnight, or use 24 hour notation.
One question: is midnite 2400 hrs or hrs? Or does it matter?
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In a message dated 3/11/99 11:31:55 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Say noon and midnight, or use 24 hour notation.
One question: is midnite 2400 hrs or hrs? Or does it matter?
Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it changes to
Marcelo E. Magallon dixit:
John Hasler is correct. The point is there is NO 12 am or 12 pm. As he
explained, am means 'ante meridiem'. This `meridiem' [ ... ]
¿meridiem? are you sure it's not meridian? or is this the Latin form?
I knew I should have never burnt my Latin dictionary... meri
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12
hours
after noon, or midnight.
No. By your logic, 12:01 PM is 12 hours and one minute after noon.
12:00 PM is noon, because the time switches from AM to PM at
On 11-Mar-99 Kent West wrote:
At 09:03 PM 3/10/1999 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Say noon and midnight, or use 24 hour notation.
One question: is midnite 2400 hrs or hrs? Or does it matter?
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On 11 Mar 1999, John Goerzen wrote:
[snip]
Although it might seen as a logical conclusion to say that 12:00 pm is noon,
the argument doesn't hold, because `pm' has a precise definition. It means
when any given star has _crossed_ the meridian
Which it will have by the time you are able
I do not undertand time notation like GMT -0500. Somebody can tell me
how does it work?
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*- On 10 Mar, Eliezer Figueroa wrote about help me to undertand GMT time
I do not undertand time notation like GMT -0500. Somebody can tell me
how does it work?
A quick search found a nice little page describing it at:
http://www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htm
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On 10-Mar-99 Eliezer Figueroa wrote:
I do not undertand time notation like GMT -0500. Somebody can tell me
how does it work?
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GMT is Greenwich meantime. It is the 0 degree line of longitude. Time to
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