BS: Go to bed you lot!

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Firecat
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 04:12 PM

NO! An' I;ll sulk if you make me!!! It's only 9:14pm here!

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Declan
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 08:18 AM

a.m is short for ante merridean (latin translated as before noon), pm for post merridean. So twelve noon can not be either am or pm - it is m. One minute after noon is 12:01 pm. Midnight being 12 hours after noon could be described as 12:00 pm as it is 12 hours after mid-day but one minute later is 00:01 am. It is simpler for digital watches and clocks to call midnight 0:00 am. 12:01-12:59 are somtimes described as am, followed a minute later by 1:00 a.m, which doesn't make much sense.

All of which is probably exactly what Nigel said up there in the first place.

Use the 24 hour clock. Its much simpler.

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: allanwill
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 08:17 AM

Nigel

How do I explain this.

1. When I posted that (slightly inebriated) first message, it was 4.40PM, Tuesday arvo' in Canberra, Oz.

2. Even though it was my day off, the body has trouble adjusting to a normal day, time-wise, because of my working hours (midnight to 8.OOAM)

3. I got up about 3.30AM that day, so that, combined with a very enjoyable session at the local, attributed to a certain degree of tiredness.

4. Your interpretation of how we should view "time" has now thrown me into total confusion and if I'm ever late for work it will be your fault!

Allan

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 08:01 AM

You think that's confusing! Try being in Australia and adding 16 hours on to it to work out how long ago someone posted! Actually I subtract 8 and call it the next day here. F'rinstance, it's midnight on Wednesday here now.

All clear now? No? Oh well....

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 03:33 AM

That's just my point. If 11.59 p.m. is immediately before midnight then the only justification for changing the signifier is if you re-start counting the hours as 0.00.
Otherwise you appear to have 4 sections of the day 1.00 a.m to 11.59 a.m./ 12.00 to 12.59 p.m./ 1.00pm to 11.59 p.m. / 12.00 to 12.59 a.m.
In each case, the signifiers change before the numbering system is restarted, and 12.01 a.m. is one hour later than 11.01 p.m. rather than being one hour after 11.01 a.m.

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 06:08 PM

But 12:01 AM is just after midnight.

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 06:02 PM

Just a small point that annoys me when form filling, or looking at opening times etc.,
It seems to be standard that people now fill in forms with 12.00 p.m. meaning noon, and 12.00 a.m. meaning midnight.
But surely the hour of 12 is one hour later than 11, so one hour after 11.00a.m. should be 12.00 a.m. (or 0.00 p.m.)

The first post in this thread was as 12.40 a.m. and says "It's Tuesday afternoon", so why's Allan heading for bed ?

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 05:05 PM

I can't sleep! Bobby's playin' with himself on the top bunk!

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: The Pooka
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 09:30 AM

An' if Moonshine don't Kill me, I'll Live 'til I Die. :) (Top o' th' mornin' btw; & izzat Yerselves?)

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Snuffy
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 08:54 AM

Alinact:-

Always eat when you are hungry
Always drink when you are dry
Always wash when you are dirty
Don't stop breathing or you'll die
Don't stop breathing
Don't stop breathing
Don't stop breathing or you'll die (or you'll die)
Don't stop breathing or you'll die

Tune: CWM RHONDDA (Guide me O Thou great Redeemer/Jehova)

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 08:02 AM

I'm 16 hours ahead of Mudcat time here in Sydney, and I usually get on about 10 or 11 at night, which is when a lot of you folks in the US are just about to get up.

The trouble is, if I stay on too long, you all get up and post heaps of messages, and that keeps me on even longer!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Little Robyn
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 06:19 AM

It's just after midnight here - about 6am Mudcat time, and yes, I'm off to bed.
Nite nite X

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: GUEST,alinact
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 03:30 AM

What with me being a night-shift worker, time zones, etc most of the time I have trouble knowing what day it is, let alone what time! It's a bit like "Eat when your hungry, drink when your dry, sleep when your tired".

Pook - See Ya'.

Eb - Look forward, not backward.

Clu - Don't wet the bed.

TtR - Shuddup and do as your told.

Mouldy (I can't politely shorten that) - I hope she has a beaut day.

SRS - Bliss!

Copyalater.

Allan
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Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 02:55 AM

I'm up very late, admiring the snow and frozen rain in the yard and the street after tucking my children into bed. They're excited that school is cancelled for tomorrow. It's 1:53am Central Standard Time, U.S. And it's absolutely lovely outside, haven't heard a car come by in hours. And for now, I don't have "miles to go before I sleep."

'night.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: mouldy
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 02:47 AM

I've been up for nearly an hour, it's 7.45 (2.45 Mudcat time), and my daughter's about to go out and get the 8am college bus to Pontefract.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 02:35 AM

Awwwww geeeeee daaaad!

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 01:41 AM

Can I have a drink of water?    Pleeeeezzzze?

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 01:38 AM

But Alan, it is still only 9:30 Monday night here- surely I need not go to bed? Getting smaller or not, this is a pretty big world at that. Some day I'll have to look up the dateline heading west. For instance, Hawaii is one hour behind Alaska- where is the next hour change?

Sleep tight.

Subject: RE: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: The Pooka
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 12:46 AM

LOL! / OK. 'Night.

Subject: BS: Go to bed you lot!
From: GUEST,alinact
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 12:40 AM

It's Tuesday afternoon, I've had a very "relaxing" day off, I come in to have a look at what's happening in Catsville and there's too much interesting stuff to read for my tiny brain to handle.

Go to bed!!!

Allan