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Originally posted by wolfgang59

What latitude do you live on???[/b]
I'm at about 45 degrees north.

Anyway, it's not going to happen but I like my idea.

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Originally posted by mwmiller
I'm at about 45 degrees north.

Anyway, it's not going to happen but I like my idea.
Ditto ... but South!
I really enjoy the light summer evenings and I don't even sail, kayak, climb, hike, bike
like mostly everyone around me!

And what about those closer to the Pole than you?
For every additional moment of sunlight in the summer is half-wasted in the morning!

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16th March 1968

Up to 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by
American troops in the "My Lai Massacre". (Vietnam) (aka Pinkville Massacre)

Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only
Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was
convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a
life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest.

Three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and rescue the
hiding civilians were denounced as traitors by several U.S. Congressmen.
Only after thirty years were they recognized and decorated, one posthumously,
by the U.S. Army for shielding non-combatants from harm in a war zone

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19th March 1863

The SS Georgiana pride of the Confederate Navy is destroyed on her maiden voyage.

Exactly 102 years later the wreck is discovered by teenage
diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.


Easter Sunday, March 27 the Year of Our Lord 2016.............

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75 YEARS AGO

March 28 1941 – Battle of Cape Matapan –

The British give the Italians a good hiding with the destruction
of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.


Does 12:00 Midnight within any Greenwich Meridian Time Zone signify AM or PM?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Does 12:00 Midnight within any Greenwich Meridian Time Zone signify AM or PM?
The potential for confusion is the reason why it's probably a good idea to use the 24-hour clock, whereby "12:00" signifies 12 noon and "24:00" is midnight.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Does 12:00 Midnight within any Greenwich Meridian Time Zone signify AM or PM?
Noon is 12PM and midnight is 12AM, no matter where you live. No 'confusion'.

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Originally posted by FMF
The potential for confusion is the reason why it's probably a good idea to use the 24-hour clock, whereby "12:00" signifies 12 noon and "24:00" is midnight.
On any 24-hour clock, there is no '24:00'. Midnight is '00:00'.

23:59, one minute later, becomes 00:00.

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Originally posted by Suzianne
On any 24-hour clock, there is no '24:00'. Midnight is '00:00'.

23:59, one minute later, becomes 00:00.
Right you are.

edit: although if you use "24:00" it signifies 'the end of a day', while the use of "00:00" signifies that the perspective is the beginning of a new day'.

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Originally posted by Suzianne
Noon is 12PM and midnight is 12AM, no matter where you live. No 'confusion'.
There certainly can be because there is no universal standard established for the meaning of 12 a.m. and 12 p.m. Grampy Bobby's question reflects exactly this potential for confusion. I grew up, for instance, unlike you, with noon being 12 a.m. and midnight being 12 p.m.

http://www.npl.co.uk/reference/faqs/is-midnight-12-am-or-12-pm-faq-time

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5th April 1900
First example of Linear B discovered at Knossos.

Anyone been? I was partly disappointed and partly in awe.
Of course the "reconstruction" would not be permitted these days.
What do you think?


Friday, April 08, 2016

TGIF

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9th April
1860

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
15 years before Tommy Edison.

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