Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr> 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 noon.
> > Simple, eh?
>
> John Hasler is correct. The point is there is NO 12 am or 12 pm. As he
That is not what he said. He said that, and I quote, "12 PM is 12
hours after noon, or midnight." This is incorrect.
> 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 to write either the AM or
the PM. Speaking of one precise instant in time is pointless; it is
gone in an infinately small amount of time. Trying to confuse the
issue, and everyone, by doing this is silly. Nitpicking like that is
unnecessary, and you are not correctly stating either my statement or
the one to which I was replying.
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