Hyper is reborn: Midnight tonight

[Charlie Reams]

Get excited!

[Ben Wilson]

I am officially dancing around the room in a state of semi-undress. (In other words, I've taken off my socks)

[Charlie Reams]

I am officially dancing around the room in a state of semi-undress. (In other words, I've taken off my socks)

Pix or didn't happen.

[JimBentley]

Excellent! I'm going out in a bit but this means that when I get back, I'll be able to play Drunken Hyper Unlimited and try to get SLEEPLESSNESSES or something equally silly. Actually, there must be new hypothetical longest words for Unlimited and Hyper Unlimited now, I wonder how long they are?

[Kai Laddiman]

Shurely midnight tonight would be 11/7/09 12:00 am?

[Charlie Reams]

It's up!

Transition seems to have gone smoothly. I've also added Hypertouchdown to win the masochist vote.

[Ian Volante]

Shurely midnight tonight would be 11/7/09 12:00 am?

12 midnight not 12am

[Daniel O'Dowd]

Shurely midnight tonight would be 11/7/09 12:00 am?

12 midnight not 12am

12 midnight IS 12am.

[Ian Volante]

Shurely midnight tonight would be 11/7/09 12:00 am?

12 midnight not 12am

12 midnight IS 12am.

Not it's not! AM stands for ante meridien, and midnight is neither ante nor post. The same goes for midday. Convention of recent times has been to use 12am/pm, but that doesn't make it right.

[Phil Reynolds]

12 midnight IS 12am.

That would presumably mean that 12pm is midday, which is clearly wrong.

[Charlie Reams]

Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that I said "midnight tonight", which is pretty hard to interpret as the midnight which already passed.

[Daniel O'Dowd]

Shurely midnight tonight would be 11/7/09 12:00 am?

12 midnight not 12am

12 midnight IS 12am.

Not it's not! AM stands for ante meridien, and midnight is neither ante nor post. The same goes for midday. Convention of recent times has been to use 12am/pm, but that doesn't make it right.

Gah this whole thing is a crock of scheiße My own mother decided to argue recently that Sky had fooled her into thinking she could phone to renew at a time she couldn't, based on the logic that it was still Saturday at 12:00:01... and that logically the phone line was closed Remarkable what people will believe. As far as midnight being equivalent to 12 am, your point is correct, but common usage makes it rather a small thing to be standing up to I think.

The 30th edition of the U.S. Government Style Manual (2008) sections 9.54 and 12.9b recommends the use of "12 a.m." for midnight and "12 p.m." for noon.

[Marc Meakin]

Not very happy with midnight on Apterous as I started the daily duel at 11.54pm last night and it rejected me at 1201am
as the new duel started

[Charlie Reams]

Not very happy with midnight on Apterous as I started the daily duel at 11.54pm last night and it rejected me at 1201am
as the new duel started

What part of that are you unhappy with?

[Marc Meakin]

Not very happy with midnight on Apterous as I started the daily duel at 11.54pm last night and it rejected me at 1201am
as the new duel started

What part of that are you unhappy with?

That I didn't know that daily duels have to be FINISHED by midnight

[Charlie Reams]

That I didn't know that daily duels have to be FINISHED by midnight

I guess it's fairly obvious to me that you need to finish by the time the results are published and you can read everyone else's games, but maybe it should give you some kind of warning at the time.

[Matt Morrison]

Not very happy with midnight on Apterous as I started the daily duel at 11.54pm last night and it rejected me at 1201am
as the new duel started

What part of that are you unhappy with?

That I didn't know that daily duels have to be FINISHED by midnight

Code: Select all

if ($helpSection == 'read') {
  $complaint = 'unhappy';
} else {
  $complaint = 'ignorant';
  echo "click here to see the appropriate help page";
}

click here to see the appropriate help page

[Marc Meakin]

That I didn't know that daily duels have to be FINISHED by midnight

I guess it's fairly obvious to me that you need to finish by the time the results are published and you can read everyone else's games, but maybe it should give you some kind of warning at the time.

I appreciate that it's me who is at fault (especially after Matts post) my computer clock has now been updated

[Ian Volante]

common usage makes it rather a small thing to be standing up to I think.

The 30th edition of the U.S. Government Style Manual (2008) sections 9.54 and 12.9b recommends the use of "12 a.m." for midnight and "12 p.m." for noon.

Common usage makes me more inclined to stand up to it. Common usage is to blame for the likes of Big Brother, Manchester United, organised religion and Michael Portillo.

And when I start paying attention to proclamations of the US Government, then maybe I'll have bigger things to worry about anyway...

[Charlie Reams]

And when I start paying attention to proclamations of the US Government, then maybe I'll have bigger things to worry about anyway...

Ian Volante: Sticking it to the man, one temporal designator at a time.

I'd definitely watch the TV series of that.

[Matt Morrison]

I appreciate that it's me who is at fault (especially after Matts post) my computer clock has now been updated

Just on the off chance that you were even slightly offended Marc, for the record it's nothing personal.
I'm sure you can imagine how frustrating it is when you spend so many hours creating the help section and nobody reads it (not even to check an issue before complaining).
It's become pretty out of date with all the new features Charlie's popped in over the last couple of months, and it's hard to bring myself to spend all the time going through it when no one cares

[Marc Meakin]

I appreciate that it's me who is at fault (especially after Matts post) my computer clock has now been updated

Just on the off chance that you were even slightly offended Marc, for the record it's nothing personal.
I'm sure you can imagine how frustrating it is when you spend so many hours creating the help section and nobody reads it (not even to check an issue before complaining).
It's become pretty out of date with all the new features Charlie's popped in over the last couple of months, and it's hard to bring myself to spend all the time going through it when no one cares

None taken Matt, I am the typical bloke who only reads a map after I get lost and only reads the instructions from IKEA only after I turned a chest of drawers into a bookcase