My Latest Peeve

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 they had 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. (!!!)