I know it's no big deal, but am I alone in finding the above an unnecessary irritant?
You can't have 0455pm.
You CAN have 1655 hrs or 4.55pm.
So please decide which it's to be Chris. Right now the time-tag is a dog's breakfast. Either go for the 24 clock (a-la military), or go for
the 'civvy' a.m. p.m. nomenclature, but please let's not have a hybrid of the two.
Keep up the great work.
Bob.
I can honestly say I have never noticed, so it bothers me not a jot.
All alone.
And I have a long list of irritants, that' not one of them 
?? Where are you looking? I can only see 24 hour time stamps on posts, no am/pm.
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Originally posted by stevebubs
?? Where are you looking? I can only see 24 hour time stamps on posts, no am/pm.
What really annoys me is when people write something like '10am in the morning' as though you could have it in the afternoon if you wanted.
When you fly alot it gets bloody annoying, ex military so 24hr clock for me only please. Its when they put the 24hr as the am time then witer pm after really grates me.
Control panel > edit profile > select 24 hour
the clock on my oven goes from 2359 to 2400, then 0001, i think that would send you to the mental home if you had this oven.
personally, meh, its only an extra 0 really isn't it? doesn't offend me... or as Ben says, change to 24 hour clock in control panel.
personally i have bigger things to worry about 
Not quite sure how that will influence my flight times on tickets at airports around the world!!!!
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Originally posted by Benzine
Control panel > edit profile > select 24 hour
Ha ha
I think that big brother has been watching
And doing................
No.......I really don't know what the problem is here 
I do not get am or pm on the posting times ... all I see is, for example, 09:00, or 10:50, or 13:00 or 23:15 (all examples ...
...)
I do not get the 'am' or the 'pm'.......
Have you selected the 24hr in your profile as suggested, and is your puter set to the 24hr clock?
Fozzie
Earlier today, at the time of my first response, Bob's post time said 23.51PM and Nigesses respose post said 08.39AM.
And now they don't.
And I've changed nothing..............
Dark forces?
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Originally posted by Fozzie
No.......I really don't know what the problem is here
I do not get am or pm on the posting times ... all I see is, for example, 09:00, or 10:50, or 13:00 or 23:15 (all examples ...
I do not get the 'am' or the 'pm'.......
Have you selected the 24hr in your profile as suggested, and is your puter set to the 24hr clock?
Fozzie
As above - I have 24 hour clock selected and it displays correctly
btw "ante-meridian" should be "ante meridiem"
P. Dant
ha, work this one out then...
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=144437
look at the edited dates on this one
two different date formats, UK and US unless there's now a 27th month i wasn't told about
So why my no display AMPM now, as mentioned I've not changed nothing no sir?
What baffles me is the fact that we have 23:59 and 00:01, where have the 2 minutes inbetween them gone? 
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Originally posted by Humbug
As above - I have 24 hour clock selected and it displays correctly
btw "ante-meridian" should be "ante meridiem"
P. Dant
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Originally posted by blakep82
ha, work this one out then...
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=144437
look at the edited dates on this one
two different date formats, UK and US
quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
So why my no display AMPM now, as mentioned I've not changed nothing no sir?
.... I have never had the am/pm display,and nope, I've not touched owt ...... 
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
What baffles me is the fact that we have 23:59 and 00:01, where have the 2 minutes inbetween them gone?
quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
What baffles me is the fact that we have 23:59 and 00:01, where have the 2 minutes inbetween them gone?
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Originally posted by bobinspain
quote:
Originally posted by stevebubs
?? Where are you looking? I can only see 24 hour time stamps on posts, no am/pm.
Steve.
Check any post-lunchtime, (post-meridian, p.m.) posting, either in this list or the main index.
Once we are past 12 noon, (1200hrs), we get all p.m. times listed as: '0' something or another p.m. It's the only time I've EVER come across it, as it's wrong !!.
So 3.15pm (civilian notation), or 1515hrs (24 hr clock or military), becomes erroneously, 0315pm. which doesn't exist (except in the Locost Forum).
0315hrs does exist. It's 3.15 in the morning 3.15am. (ante-meridian: before the meridian).
It's mixing the military 24 hr clock with the civilian am/pm clock and it' plain incorrect. You end up with a 'bastard-hybrid.' (my words).
I may not know much about cars, but with 3,500 military flying hours behind me, trust me! I'm correct on this one.
My point being that on a superb website such as this one, a glaring, yet simply corrected error could do with addressing.
('nuff said).
Regards, Bob.
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Originally posted by bobinspain
What's been headline news all week? "9/11" ten yr anniversary thereof.
That's the 11th day of the ninth month. Not the way us Brits would normally do it. We say 7/11. Eleventh day of the seventh month.
Just because I can't spell Armageddon, it's not the end of the world !
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Originally posted by Alan B
quote:
Originally posted by bobinspain
What's been headline news all week? "9/11" ten yr anniversary thereof.
That's the 11th day of the ninth month. Not the way us Brits would normally do it. We say 7/11. Eleventh day of the seventh month.
Just because I can't spell Armageddon, it's not the end of the world !
The biggest thing here that pi**es me off the most is the use of ......"x" year aniversary....there is nothing wrong with the simpler and correct form of ......"x" th aniversary.
You would never say"it's my 45 year birthday next week"
End of yank bashing...after all I technically am one now.....
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Originally posted by stevebubs
Snipped....
Trouble is people celebrate week and month anniversaries now, too!!
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Originally posted by bobinspain
quote:
Originally posted by Humbug
As above - I have 24 hour clock selected and it displays correctly
btw "ante-meridian" should be "ante meridiem"
P. Dant
At least have the good grace to check your facts Mr Dant. (P or otherwise).
MERIDIAN. It refers to a line of longitude (imaginary) passing great-circle fashion through the north and south geographic poles.
In the case of am and pm the MERIDIAN in question is that of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As a matter of fact, our longitude here in Spain (Castellon) is just about spot on zero.
Regards, Bob. Squadron Leader R E Lee. RAF (ret'd).
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Originally posted by Fozzie
quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
So why my no display AMPM now, as mentioned I've not changed nothing no sir?
Dunno
Having a bit of trub seeing what our Blake is talking about on that link posted above.....
mind I've an 'edache and only 36 hours post op........
Fozzie
Edit to add....I have found it! ( Blakes link, date difference!.)...
The date format is also an option in each users profile............
[Edited on 15-9-11 by Fozzie]
there is a sign in leeds city centre saying '24 hour access required all day', which i always find most amusing.
For Plentywahalla.
I have to confess never having heard of meridiem in over 1,000,000 miles of flying, using astro (including a 'Merpass' sun fix on the way to
Gan, 73degrees 10minutes E, 0041mins S.) and many sun/moon fixes etc. (in a VC10 at 480kts) and circumnavigating the North Geographic pole in a
Britannia etc. The word doesn't appear in either Cassell's or Collin's full English dictionary.
Mr Dant it transpires refers to meridiem correctly however. I apologise to him.
I am aware of the point you make re' am/pm and GMT, utilising as I had to, air almanac and astro reduction tables in the 70's, before the
advent of GPS.
You learn something new every day.
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Originally posted by JoelP
there is a sign in leeds city centre saying '24 hour access required all day', which i always find most amusing.
Plentywahalla.
Websters and Wiktionary state that the correct terminology for am and pm is ante and post meridan. (Other sources quote meridiem).
Most agree that ante meridiem is used as an adverb as in, "Let's meet at 11am."
Equally, they agree that ante meridian is used adjectivally to denote am.
No wiser really !!!
What is certain is my original observation that there's no such time as (for example) 0455pm.
Lets just correct something else ....
AlanB - you're from Preston (*), therefore you're British!
(*) at least thats what i've got a vague memory of you saying.
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Originally posted by MikeR
Lets just correct something else ....
AlanB - you're from Preston (*), therefore you're British!
(*) at least thats what i've got a vague memory of you saying.
I guess in a way I'm still English although I have US citizenship I did not give up my UK citizenship either...
Yup, originally from sunny Preston....(well it was one day, I'm sure...)
Meridiem is Latin for midday in the accusative case. So am - before midday: pm after midday.
If " am / pm " refers to the Greenwich Prime Meridian, what does a Canadian mean when he says " meet you at 2 pm " ? 09.00
Canadian clock time ?
Now get back to building cars !!
[Edited on 15/9/11 by Macbeast]
quote:
Originally posted by bobinspain
quote:
Originally posted by stevebubs
?? Where are you looking? I can only see 24 hour time stamps on posts, no am/pm.
Steve.
Check any post-lunchtime, (post-meridian, p.m.) posting, either in this list or the main index.
Once we are past 12 noon, (1200hrs), we get all p.m. times listed as: '0' something or another p.m. It's the only time I've EVER come across it, as it's wrong !!.
So 3.15pm (civilian notation), or 1515hrs (24 hr clock or military), becomes erroneously, 0315pm. which doesn't exist (except in the Locost Forum).
0315hrs does exist. It's 3.15 in the morning 3.15am. (ante-meridian: before the meridian).
It's mixing the military 24 hr clock with the civilian am/pm clock and it' plain incorrect. You end up with a 'bastard-hybrid.' (my words).
I may not know much about cars, but with 3,500 military flying hours behind me, trust me! I'm correct on this one.
My point being that on a superb website such as this one, a glaring, yet simply corrected error could do with addressing.
('nuff said).
Regards, Bob.
Should your example not be 0315Z ?
Only if you're talking about GMT
We're now on GMT + 1 = A
[Edited on 16/9/11 by Macbeast]
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Originally posted by Macbeast
Meridiem is Latin for midday in the accusative case. So am - before midday: pm after midday.
If " am / pm " refers to the Greenwich Prime Meridian, what does a Canadian mean when he says " meet you at 2 pm " ? 09.00 Canadian clock time ?
Now get back to building cars !!
[Edited on 15/9/11 by Macbeast]
Still wrong. Times shown here are BST ( GMT + 1 ).
How on earth did you manage to find a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean ?
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Originally posted by Fozzie
quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
Lets just correct something else ....
AlanB - you're from Preston (*), therefore you're British!
(*) at least thats what i've got a vague memory of you saying.
Surely British could mean any of the countries that make up Great Britain ....?
As Preston is in England....that would make Alan English.
Sorry...but that is something that really makes my blood boil ....being classed as British when infact
Britain is a collection of countries we can't have been born in Britain, but in one of the countries that
comprises Britain, as I'm sure the Scots, Welsh and Irish born will also agree....
Fozzie ....
(Mr P Dantics' cousin) ....
Blimmin 'eck Scuddy .....
You were born 4 times ???????
Your poor mum!
Fozzie
[Edited on 16-9-11 by Fozzie]
BTW, Fozzie, you can't count!
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Originally posted by scudderfish
BTW, Fozzie, you can't count!
quote:
Originally posted by Macbeast
Should your example not be 0315Z ?
Only if you're talking about GMT
We're now on GMT + 1 = A
[Edited on 16/9/11 by Macbeast]
Very sensible too. I've always said the whole world should be on GMT. So what if the Japanese go to work at 0100 Z- the Sun's up.
Macbeast.
Not only did I find Gan, but I did so around 80 times en-route to either Singapore or Hong Kong for a 3-5 night stopover at a 5 star hotel accompanied
(often) by a British Airways crew and attendant lovlies.
It was a hard life, but someone had to do it.
Having a leading zero on a 12 hour clock might be a floggable offence in the military, but it's utterly, completely and blatantly obvious that
04:56pm is the same as 4:56pm. I would love to have so little to worry about that this kind of thing was top of my agenda!
[Edited on 17/9/11 by MikeRJ]
quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
Having a leading zero on a 12 hour clock might be a floggable offence in the military, but it's utterly, completely and blatantly obvious that 04:56pm is the same as 4:56pm. I would love to have so little to worry about that this kind of thing was top of my agenda!
[Edited on 17/9/11 by MikeRJ]