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I'm amazed that there are people who can work 9-5 jobs. That's when I sleep, dude.
Tuesday, 01-Oct-13 11:54:32 UTC from web-
@redenchilada You sleep from 21:00 till 05:00 ?
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@critialcloudkicker no, 09:00 till 17:00
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@redenchilada I wish I slept then. I struggle to get 8 solid hours. My body clock forces me to nod off at work most nights.
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@critialcloudkicker (my sleep schedule emigrated to Australia)
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@flamingpandaomg You sleep during the day ?
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@critialcloudkicker I'm literally saying what Red just told you since you weren't understanding.
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@redenchilada Oh... I woke up with the Brazillians today, I think
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@flamingpandaomg Well, sleeping at night would make the most sense... Also a 12 hour system sucks...
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@critialcloudkicker Not everyone's sleep schedule is based at night.
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@critialcloudkicker Also it's not that hard to put an a or p at the end.
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@flamingpandaomg There is a vast difference between "most sense" and "all sense" and "what happens" ... but point taken :)
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@flamingpandaomg What would that imply ?
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@critialcloudkicker 10a (10am) = 10:00; 10p (10pm) = 22:00
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@flamingpandaomg OHH... So a ( am ) means... after midday and p ( pm ) means past midday ? ... Wait that does not make sense
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@critialcloudkicker How does it not make sense?
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@flamingpandaomg after and past... kinda mean the same thing ?
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@critialcloudkicker That's not what AM and PM mean.
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@flamingpandaomg So what do they mean ?
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@critialcloudkicker A.M. means Ante Meridiem which means 'before midday', while P.M. means Post Meridiem which means 'after midday'.
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@flamingpandaomg That does not sound like very Americanesque words at all... Pretty sure it is Latin... I'l just stick to a 24 hour format that makes use of numbers.
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@critialcloudkicker I never said that they were English in origin at all, due to the fact that they're Latin.
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@flamingpandaomg So why is America still using the AM PM system ? How in the world where everyone is so pro-[their own country] ( Especially America ) did a Latin wording for things win ? So that the rest of the world would have an easier time communicating ? Seems like that kinda backfired
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@critialcloudkicker ..... you should probably remember the fact that a majority words have an origin that can be rooted to Latin or another older language. You're literally making no sense whatsoever.
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@critialcloudkicker I can probably answer that. America is just too lazy to do it any other way. However, about half of the nation now is using the millitary time-reading system. (1900 = 7 pm, etc.)
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@arcanepony43 Wait, you call that the "millitary time-reading system" ? ... I guess that makes sense though *shrug* I guess now we have to wait till everybody asks the question "When is zero dark thirty ?" if you can answer this, you are ex-military and/or brilliant
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@flamingpandaomg Actually the only "sense" that I was originally making was "I do not like AM and/or PM" which got woven WAY out of proportions. :) so yea :) I'll go read a 3/4 page Wikipedia page now
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@critialcloudkicker that's 30 min after midnight. and yes, we call that millitary time. Mostly because thats the main time our whole millitary uses in hopes of not mixing up times.
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@critialcloudkicker It's silly how it's so divided in the nation.
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@arcanepony43 >speaking for an entire country
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@arcanepony43 I thought that the American military used Zulu time as main timezone so they would not get confused between mountain, east, west, and midland. Also the correctest answer to "what is zero dark thirty" would have been "the darkest time of the day"
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@flamingpandaomg You know, that did not exactly answered the question why Americans nowadays still use AM and PM as opposed to giving it a name themselves.
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@critialcloudkicker Because a majority of words are rooted in Latin or other languages. You could ask why we didn't make our own word for over half of our vocabulary if you wanted to.
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@flamingpandaomg But it is about time... You use time... all the time...
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@critialcloudkicker So? I use the word strong often and that's of Germanic origins.
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@flamingpandaomg But you do not use strong all the time
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@critialcloudkicker How do you know what words I say?
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@flamingpandaomg I know you use the word "strong" less than you point out time, or look at time. Unless if you are a strongman at a carnival... Probably...
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@critialcloudkicker Moral of the story: I don't know why and I don't care enough to look into it. It doesn't matter what we use as a system for telling time.
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@flamingpandaomg No, no it does not. It would however be interesting if we were ALL using the same system. It would keep us from these gigantuaur almost impossible to climb out of wordfalls though
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