Today, My Friend Flickr was scheduled to be down for the purposes of physically moving their servers in anticipation of an expansion. Leading up to the downtime, they had posted a message at the top of the website that indicated that the outage would be from "12pm to 5pm"...
I sent them an email informing them that there is no such thing as 12pm (or 12am for that matter) and I got the following response:
"12 p.m. exists as far as I know. It means 12 noon - 5 p.m. PST on Sunday (5 hours total)."
This evening, I walked up to the corner store and there was a sign posted on the door with their new hours: "6am to 12pm". As I walked out, I mentioned to the woman, "There's no such thing as 12pm, you know." She chuckled, but I don't think she understood...
There is a 12 Noon and a 12 Midnight — there is no 12am or 12pm.
It appears, however, that Blogger is deserving of an email as well! (see below)
Edit to add (19 June 2024):Now that I live on the West Coast, the time stamp on this post is 9:00 p.m. versus the original 12:00 a.m. (!!!)
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