Freezing Saddles end date?
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@PotomacCyclist 78985 wrote:
winter ended on Feb 28
Game over! We win!
French team maybe should have started their come from behind attempt a little sooner.:cool:
@ShawnoftheDread 78988 wrote:
In your lawyerly exactitude, you should know that at exactly 12:00 it is neither a.m. nor p.m., but merely m. Proper designation should be either 12:00 midnight or 12:00:01 a.m.
Yes, I am a pedant. Why do you ask?
Note: you have this backward. 12 noon is neither a.m. or p.m., and 12 midnight is 12a.m. (a.m. and p.m. are from the latin for before and after midday, so the concept of noon being before or after itself is illogical.) This is extremely easy to screw up, so many style guides suggest always using “12 midnight” or “12 noon”. The correct fix is to use a 24 hour clock starting from 0.
Lawyerly note: smart money writes a contract for 11:59pm or 12:01am to just avoid this issue entirely.
@mstone 78991 wrote:
The correct fix is to use a 24 hour clock starting from 0.
Lawyerly note: smart money writes a contract for 11:59pm or 12:01am to just avoid this issue entirely.
Amen, we should use the 24 hour clock for specificity in this country. Big fan, always have been, ever since my parents’ first VCR had a 24 hour clock to avoid just this issue when it came to recordings. Watch and computers are set to 24 hour time. And no, I was never in the military. Though I have lived in eastern Europe for a total of about four years in my life and saw the clear advantages of the 24 hour clock. AM and PM are about as ridiculous as gallons/quarts/cup and yard/feet/inches. Oh, wait… forgot. This is ‘Murica!
@acl 78986 wrote:
Game over! We win!
French team maybe should have started their come from behind attempt a little sooner.:cool:
We Frenchies know that “REAL” winter ends and spring begins at the Vernal Equinox. It is not a “manufactured for television because we aren’t smart enough to understand that the equinox is a movable date and time dictated by the alignment of the earth’s axis with the center of the sun” date. We are biding our time, slowly but surely, making our climb to the top for utter domination of Freezing Saddles and all of its Dominion. Lentement mais surement!!!! French Team Rules!!!! Bwaaaaahaaaaahaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I’m thinking that the Frenchies’ interest in precision comes because they have often been ahead during the day and then fallen behind again at night. They are thus lobbying for the end to be 12:57 P.M., as it is their only hope to win.
@kwarkentien 79026 wrote:
We Frenchies know that “REAL” winter ends and spring begins at the Vernal Equinox. It is not a “manufactured for television because we aren’t smart enough to understand that the equinox is a movable date and time dictated by the alignment of the earth’s axis with the center of the sun” date. We are biding our time, slowly but surely, making our climb to the top for utter domination of Freezing Saddles and all of its Dominion. Lentement mais surement!!!! French Team Rules!!!! Bwaaaaahaaaaahaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fascinated as I am by all the digressions, it would be nice to know when the competition actually ends.
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