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bloke wrote:It is now 12:20 P.M. TubeNet will be closing in ten minutes and will reopen tomorrow morning, 8:00 A.M. E.D.T.

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Good morning from Switzerland!

good night

sleep tight

don't let the bed bugs bite.....

I have been at work since 7:30 AM yesterday and will probably be here for the duration of the following day. New IP phone system AND new email system going live. (Voicemail depends on the email, so that necessitated replacing both systems simultaneously.) No major issues, just lots of details.

Seriously, since demands at work as a commissioned piano salesperson in this economy have become more time consuming, I must squeeze an hour of tuba practicing in the morning before I drive to the showroom. I never know what will pry me away from practicing later in the day.

So...the midnight oil is going to have to burn less frequently here, and the Tempurpedic welcomed earlier in the evening.

Ok, 8am in New York. Back open for business.

MartyNeilan wrote:I have been at work since 7:30 AM yesterday and will probably be here for the duration of the following day. New IP phone system AND new email system going live. (Voicemail depends on the email, so that necessitated replacing both systems simultaneously.) No major issues, just lots of details.

STILL at work.

bloke wrote:It is now 12:20 P.M. TubeNet will be closing in ten minutes and will reopen tomorrow morning, 8:00 A.M. E.D.T.

Are you serious? You want to close at 20 minutes after noon?

MartyNeilan wrote:

MartyNeilan wrote:I have been at work since 7:30 AM yesterday and will probably be here for the duration of the following day. New IP phone system AND new email system going live. (Voicemail depends on the email, so that necessitated replacing both systems simultaneously.) No major issues, just lots of details.

STILL at work.

Finally left after about 33 hours straight. Went home, ate (thanks to the wife for wonderful homemade eggplant parm), slept (thanks again to the wife), and back here on time this morning.

bloke wrote:

Mark wrote:

bloke wrote:It is now 12:20 P.M. TubeNet will be closing in ten minutes and will reopen tomorrow morning, 8:00 A.M. E.D.T.

Are you serious? You want to close at 20 minutes after noon?

You're on Sammamish-ish time, Mark.

No, 12:20 P.M. is twenty minutes after noon.

Joe's right. AM means before noon, and PM means after noon. Noon (or midnight) is neither before nor after itself, so noon is just noon.

This is why you will never see a flight, train, etc. scheduled for exactly noon or midnight. They always pick 11:59 AM or 12:01 PM (or vice versa) to avoid confusion.

Why we can't just use the metric system and 24-hour time like so many other countries I'll never understand...

A quote from my favorite online dictionary.
"While computers and digital clocks display "12:00 a.m." and "12:00 p.m." these notations provide no clear and unambiguous way to distinguish between midnight and noon. It is actually improper to use "a.m." and "p.m." when referring to 12:00. The abbreviation a.m. stands for ante meridiem (or before the meridian) and p.m. stands for post meridiem (or after the meridian), with the meridian being 12:00 noon. For this reason, neither abbreviation is correct for noon or midnight.[4] The length of the error is determined by the smallest unit of time: 12:00:01 p.m. would be correctly notated, as would even 12:00:00.00001 pm."
This may be the first time in the history of tubenet that Joe and Wade have been on the opposite side of a question, and both wrong.

Hm. In our world, digital clocks jump from 23:59 to 0:00.
No problems here.

tubeast wrote:Hm. In our world, digital clocks jump from 23:59 to 0:00.
No problems here.

You also have the metric system. If it wasn't for marmite/vegemite, I think you guys might be onto something down there.

the elephant wrote:

ShoelessWes wrote:

tubeast wrote:Hm. In our world, digital clocks jump from 23:59 to 0:00.
No problems here.

You also have the metric system. If it wasn't for marmite/vegemite, I think you guys might be onto something down there.

Austria, not Australia.

Haha, you just got to laugh.

END OF DISCUSSION. (inside joke)