On 2019-09-12 at 23:20, John Hasler wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> Wherever you need to specify midnight in a form where specifying any >> other time would get the "AM"/"PM"/"M"(eridiem) abbreviation. > >> To have a two-letter abbreviation for midnight but a one-letter one >> for noon might be acceptable, although it would feel lopsided to me, >> but just offhand I don't know of any suitable candidate to be that >> two-letter abbreviation. Again, do you have any suggestions? > > Why abbreviate at all? It's been a long time since we stopped needing > to save bytes.
Why do people abbreviate "AM" and "PM" when speaking out loud? Again, "on a computer" - or even "in writing" - is not the only context where these abbreviations get used. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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