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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you use Twitter, I IMPLORE you...please DO NOT post this photo in replies to Trump's tweets.
I was just looking at Little Lord PissyPants' Twitter feed and some anarchist who TRULY hates America (didn't check their profile pic to see it was the ANTIFA logo) posted THIS. WHY would you want to upset the best president since Abraham Lincoln? So if you use Twitter and do see Trump's tweets, PLEASE DO NOT post this in a reply to him.
Also, if you have freedom lovin' MAGA friends, don't post it in replies to them, either!
Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)Lock him up.
(6,944 posts)mobeau69
(11,158 posts)GopherGal
(2,010 posts)Noon EST
to clarify for non East-Coast residents.
aggiesal
(8,935 posts)12 a.m. = Midnight
12 p.m. = Noon
mobeau69
(11,158 posts)At noon the sun is directly over the meridian. It is neither past the meridian or before (ante) the meridian.
The military uses a 24 hour clock to avoid confusion. Using noon and midnight does the same.
Years ago I read about a person who argued this in court over a no parking sign that used, in part, 12pm and the judge agreed!
aggiesal
(8,935 posts)Since we don't use the 24 hr. clock, we use the 12 hour clock and since we don't use 0:00 for midnight, we have to distinguish between the two 12 o'clocks.
Hence 12 a.m. & 12 p.m., which is the standard convention.
You'll never convince me otherwise.
And that judge is an idiot.
mobeau69
(11,158 posts)aggiesal
(8,935 posts)So they decided to use the word "noon" instead,
does not mean that 12 a.m. or 12 p.m. does not exist.
Weak argument!
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,656 posts)Uncle Meridian, all the little Meridians.
Sorry, had a Johnny Dangerously moment
mobeau69
(11,158 posts)NotANeocon
(423 posts)AM Ante Meridiem = Before Midday
PM Post Meridiem = after midday
Diem - day Latin
Meridiem is Midday or 12 noon
riversedge
(70,322 posts)yonder
(9,679 posts)It would be more accurate to say at apparent solar noon the sun is directly over the meridian. This time could also be described as sundial time. This time is non-uniform because of the earth's elliptical orbit, it's inclination to the ecliptic and minor precessional movements of the earth itself. This apparent sun gains and loses time.
On the other hand, mean solar time is uniform and includes standard time, universal time and local civil time. Standard or Daylight Saving Time is the time most folks use to measure time and the noon measured by it rarely coincides with the sun being directly overhead of the observer's meridian.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)Noon is 12PM.
Midnight is 12am.
mobeau69
(11,158 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)The second that follows 11:59:59 AM is 12:00 PM
The second that follows 11:59:59 PM is 12:00 AM
Regardless of what your other post says.
Of course there is a twelve PM.
mobeau69
(11,158 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)because that statement is demonstrably false.
Response to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #32)
mobeau69 This message was self-deleted by its author.
mobeau69
(11,158 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,342 posts)soldierant
(6,937 posts)and that 12:00 pm is noon, and has been so my entire life, and I am 75. I've seen several attempts to change it (for example, 12:00 m and 12:00 n), all of which have failed. The convention is still the convention.
And if you set a digital clock, you will notice that "pm" shows right up on 12:00 just as you hit noon.
It's analogous to the convention that zero precedes one.
Of course in military time it's 0000 for midnight and 1200 for noon. But not that many people use that system.
Old Crow
(2,212 posts)... most who are of a similar bent will argue you should never write "12 noon" (per your suggestion) because it's redundant and you should instead write just "Noon."
Personally, I think your complaint is off-base. If you're trying to indicate that there's an exact schedule being followed (as with a timetable or an itinerary or a schedule of events, as with an inauguration), the most appropriate designation is 12:00 PM. "Noon" sounds too informal and imprecise. As another in this thread has already noted, it's an established custom that midnight is indicated as 12:00 AM, and noon as 12:00 PM.
RainCaster
(10,926 posts)It will really hurt his butt.
SunSeeker
(51,734 posts)alfredo
(60,077 posts)Link to tweet
?s=21
dhill926
(16,367 posts)to be breaking out the bubbles. But they will be on this day...
lastlib
(23,310 posts)mobeau69
(11,158 posts)Towlie
(5,328 posts)
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MizLibby
(289 posts)Followed by a tequila shooter. Im game.
kag
(4,079 posts)Count me in!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,495 posts)plant it all over the White House web site or the RNC's or NewsMax's web pages.....
Damn glad I don't know any hackers.
That would look really good on billboards around the nation.....
alfredo
(60,077 posts)Link to tweet
?s=21
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)LeftInTX
(25,587 posts)Check out Reface!
alfredo
(60,077 posts)LeftInTX
(25,587 posts)alfredo
(60,077 posts)LeftInTX
(25,587 posts)I just don't click on them!
alfredo
(60,077 posts)alfredo
(60,077 posts)alfredo
(60,077 posts)aggiesal
(8,935 posts)You owe me a new keyboard!
Cha
(297,763 posts)bluescribbler
(2,123 posts)You betcha!
JI7
(89,276 posts)In this way it dismisses them and make their bs look stupid. While not letting them get to us and feel good about what we have to look forward to.
Blue Owl
(50,523 posts)Repeat: Do not point your browser to www.loser.com
That URL again: www.loser.com