[ale] FW: Mail service: Scheduled maintenance

[Geoffrey]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 17:28, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Greg wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Although we have not experienced any problems to date, we are taking
>>>preventative measures to ensure trouble-free operation for our
>>>customers.  As a result, all of Speed Factory's Email services will be
>>>unavailable Saturday, May 1, 2004 from 12am to 2am.
>>
>>There is no such thing as ...
> 
> 
> Are you sure.  I thought it was the equivalent of midnight.

Positive.  AM stands for ante meridian, PM stands for post meridian. 
It's based on the position of the sun as it crosses the meridian, AM is 
before it crosses, PM after, basically.  The best you could say would be 
12 M, but that could apply to both noon and midnight, since the sun 
crosses the meridian twice, giving us the changes am->pm and pm->am.

Astronomy 101 I think.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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