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good, that's what I thought it was
I think PM comes from the latin Post Meridiem (midday). But logically, 12:00PM means 12 hours after midday, but that's wrong.

It only goes to show, they should put an engineer in charge of time, (a software engineer).

Then there would be no need for such ridiculousness.

Use a 4 bit hour (16 close enough). and a 5 bit minute.
So that would make midday 1000:00000,
one minute to midday, 0111:11111,
one minute to midnight, 1111:11111.

Of course this means you no longer have to say "is is afternoon yet", you can optimise and say
(t&8:0).

No more base 12 Assyrian time! Just plain old binary.
Posted by: hipparchus2001   Posted on: 01/09/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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12:00 PM? When is that?  Fred Fredrickson | 01/09/06
I guess you missed that day in elementary school.  shallow_diver | 01/09/06
Your killing me Fred (NT)  drone139 | 01/09/06
yeah.. its hard.. dont worry... its  doh123 | 01/09/06
good, that's what I thought it was  hipparchus2001 | 01/09/06
Well it's.....  Rick_K | 01/09/06
Wow...  vdraken | 01/09/06
http://tf.nist.gov/general/misc.htm  Bill4 | 01/09/06
Great link  nomorems | 01/09/06
yay that's what I thought too  hipparchus2001 | 01/09/06
It'll be good...  nECrO_z | 01/09/06
noon or midnight?  sarteano@... | 01/09/06

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