Sooo... about 12 o'clock

Rystefn · Post by **Rystefn** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:29 pm

When announcing the time that things are happening, you should keep in mind that 12pm is noon. 12am is midnight. But, really, you should never, ever say either 12am or 12pm because even if you're right, about half your audience is going to get it wrong. Just say noon or midnight.

Seven Sons of Sin · Post by **Seven Sons of Sin** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:43 pm

or use 24hr clock. Europeans do it right. Curse the society who thought am/pm was at all a good idea.

Post by **LittleWeasel** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:46 pm

Seven Sons of Sin wrote:or use 24hr clock. Europeans do it right. Curse the society who thought am/pm was at all a good idea.

yep

I agree

Rystefn · Post by **Rystefn** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:05 pm

Or move the time one minute in any direction. Or any of a hundred other options. The point is, it's a terrible plan to ever do it this way.

Baron Saturday · Post by **Baron Saturday** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:28 pm

I almost failed a class because of this. Please, please.

Marsi · Post by **Marsi** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:02 pm

IndifferentPerson · Post by **IndifferentPerson** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:06 pm

I leave for a week and there's two more threads on use of language.

Anime Sword Fighter · Post by **Anime Sword Fighter** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:08 pm

why do you have so many donkey kong gifs

Faye · Post by **Faye** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:17 pm

I like the lil eyes in the corner.

Marsi · Post by **Marsi** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:25 pm

Coreybush11 wrote:why do you have so many donkey kong gifs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8WvSGNEV24

IndifferentPerson · Post by **IndifferentPerson** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 11:08 pm

Coreybush11 wrote:why do you have so many donkey kong gifs

I don't need to answer your insignificant inquiries.

Stath · Post by **Stath** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 6:31 am

Not automatically using 24 Hour time. What are you guys, peasants?

Manabi · Post by **Manabi** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 7:21 am

Stath wrote:Not automatically using 24 Hour time. What are you guys, peasants?

We call it "military time" here in Murica.

>inb4 insults

Yma23 · Post by **Yma23** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:59 pm

Actually - whilst we're on the topic of times. Small little thing for peeps to keep in mind...

Now - this hasn't happened much, but I do think it's worth mentioning because I know it's happened to me at least once.

Americans!

Britains use a slightly different date signet than you do.

For us, to say the 25 of December, 2014 is-

24/12/2014

As I understand it Americans use:

12/24/2014

Both are quite valid, but under some circumstances confusion could occur.

So - if putting a date down for something think a little before using the above dating systems, and consider just writing it out instead (e.g. twelth of febuary). This may aviod a little confusion.

IndifferentPerson · Post by **IndifferentPerson** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 10:07 pm

People usually add thursday/friday/saturday to it either way.

Post by **Cuchilla** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 10:30 pm

Yma23 wrote:Actually - whilst we're on the topic of times. Small little thing for peeps to keep in mind...

Now - this hasn't happened much, but I do think it's worth mentioning because I know it's happened to me at least once.

Americans!

Britains use a slightly different date signet than you do.

For us, to say the 25 of December, 2014 is-

24/12/2014

As I understand it Americans use:

12/24/2014

Both are quite valid, but under some circumstances confusion could occur.

So - if putting a date down for something think a little before using the above dating systems, and consider just writing it out instead (e.g. twelth of febuary). This may aviod a little confusion.

Confusion is complete, when dates are below 12: Is 11/12/2014 December 11th or November 12th? And nobody understands the system we use in Scandinavia, Germany, France ...: 11.12.2014. It might be some sort of IP-adress??? Hooray for the multicultural world!

Rystefn · Post by **Rystefn** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 12:09 am

Yeah, it also doesn't help when the day of the week and numerical date don't match. Or the date given is in the past. But, really, there's no reason to ever have ambiguous dates. 11 Dec is the same as Dec 11. No muss, no fuss.

Yellena · Post by **Yellena** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:09 am

What about a countdown to the next reset? =p
Every tick shows it.

Razmo_de · Post by **Razmo_de** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 8:20 am

So, basically, what you're saying is that time goes:

11:59 am -> 12:00 pm -> 0:01 pm?

<sarcasm>Thats totally not complicated at all!</sarcasm>

There should not even exist 12am/pm.

Rystefn · Post by **Rystefn** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:41 pm

It goes 11:59 am -> 12:00 pm -> 12:01 pm

Yes, it's stupid. Yes, 24-hour clocks make more sense. But if people insist on sticking with it, use noon/midnight. No one is confused about which is which.

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