> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Gilmore
>
> Every American who has been in the military has perforce mastered and used
> the 24-hour clock. Adopt
> it for your report, explaining what it is in an attached text note for the
> first 15 days for which it
> is used.
>
> The twelve-hour clock has nothing to recommend it. Anciently, there were not
> two but three suffixes,
> viz.,
>
> o AM, ante meridiem, as in antebellum or antecedent, before noon,
>
> o M, meridies, noon, middle of the day, and
>
> o PM, post meridiem, as in postwar, afternoon.
>
> This scheme did parse, but dumbing down has destroyed it
>
> The latin case endings are now all but unknown; hoi polloi have somehow lost
> meridies and M entirely;
> and I now hear speculation about whether noon is AM or PM, about whether,
> that is, it is noon before
> noon or noon after noon.
Since the duration of "noon" is infinitesimal, why bother with it?
-jc-
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