[ale] FW: Mail service: Scheduled maintenance

[Jeff Hubbs]

Here is the poop:

http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/general/misc.htm

- Jeff


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 18:00, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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.