i promised to update you on the 1159 thingy.
I had this CA exercise which i had to hand in at 1159am. At first the prof said 12pm and everyone was wondering if its midnight or afternoon. So someone emailed him and ask. Here's his reply:
Dear all,
Apologies for the confusion. I should not have used 12 am (or 12 pm) as they are both meaningless. As you may know, the expressions pm and am come from Latin. "Ante" means before and "post" means after. Meri-diem means half (meri) of the day (diem), ie, 12 noon. Therefore 12 am or 12 pm is a totally ambiguous expression. For example, 12 midnight is both 12 h before and 12 after the meridiem (12 noon), so is both 12 am and 12 pm, whereas 12 noon is neither 12 am or 12 pm, it is just "m".
I guess what I meant is 11.59 am. Some Latin for you today
Regards,
JT (Jaume Torres)
I had this CA exercise which i had to hand in at 1159am. At first the prof said 12pm and everyone was wondering if its midnight or afternoon. So someone emailed him and ask. Here's his reply:
Dear all,
Apologies for the confusion. I should not have used 12 am (or 12 pm) as they are both meaningless. As you may know, the expressions pm and am come from Latin. "Ante" means before and "post" means after. Meri-diem means half (meri) of the day (diem), ie, 12 noon. Therefore 12 am or 12 pm is a totally ambiguous expression. For example, 12 midnight is both 12 h before and 12 after the meridiem (12 noon), so is both 12 am and 12 pm, whereas 12 noon is neither 12 am or 12 pm, it is just "m".
I guess what I meant is 11.59 am. Some Latin for you today
Regards,
JT (Jaume Torres)
Interesting right? Learnt something from him... Quite an interesting prof but gives a lot of homework.
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