Comments: draft-ietf-nntpext-base-06-txt

[Perry E. Metzger]

Charles Lindsey writes:
> In <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811051314140.291-100000 at ender.sf.scient.com> Christopher N
ielsen <enkhyl at scient.com> writes:
> 
> 
> >12pm is noon; not midnight. Midnight is 12am.
> 
> Actually, it is meaningless. "pm" is "post meridiem" and noon is neither
> "post" nor "ante".

That's pedantic gunk.

One second after noon, it's post noon, thus pm.

Besides, humans need a designation to distinguish the times, and this
is the convention we use.

Perry