*- On 18 Mar, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: help me to undertand GMT time"
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> In reply to:Colin Telmer
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> Quoting Colin Telmer([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
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>> > > Midnight is hours; there is no 240
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:
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> > > Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - af
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
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> I'm as authoritative on this subject as you are, so who's correct?
Here's a so
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:
Solipsistic Nazisim promulgated by Hitler. There, three keywords that
immediately kill a thread. This thread is now officially dead, further
messages on this thread are subject to the author being smacked with a
week-old herring :)
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Edward Kear wrote:
> At 10:19 PM 3/11/99
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> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote:
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> > please let this thread DIE!
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> I'd agree with that too.
Yeah, let it die!
Anyone agreeing with this?
:)
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At 10:19 PM 3/11/99 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>On 10 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote:
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>> > If it is 12:00 pm GMT it is 7:00am EST (12 - 5).
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>> 12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight, as is 12:00 am.
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>> Better yet, use 24 hour notation. Timezones are confusing enough without
>> the am-pm n
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> please let this thread DIE!
I'd agree with that too.
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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 wa
please let this thread DIE!
-vinny
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
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 i
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 corre
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:
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On 11 Mar 1999, John Goerzen wrote:
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> > 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
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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"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 switche
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... m
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 change
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 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'. T
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:17:02PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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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 no
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. :)
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
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
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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> 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 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
the east of this line is GMT
*- 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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