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  • "Mid day" when is it?
  • scruff9252
    Full Member

    I have always though of mid day as noon or 12:00. However got a sales call today at an inauspicious time. I asked them to call back at mid day but salesperson needed me to stipulate the exact time as “mid day is a different time for different people”. Apparently.

    So what time do you think mid day is? Can it be variable?

    the-muffin-man
    Full Member

    For me mid-day is 12 noon.

    ‘Lunchtime’ is the variable.

    Bregante
    Full Member

    From the OED

    Midday:

    NOUN

    The middle of the day; noon:

    Also
    NOUN

    noon, twelve noon, twelve midday, twelve o’clock, high noon, noontide, noontime, noonday, twelve hundred, twelve hundred hours

    Cougar
    Full Member

    I’d say “midday” is around 12 noon. I wouldn’t expect a midday phone call bang on 12, could be a bit earlier or later. Broadly synonymous with “lunchtime” I suppose.

    john_drummer
    Free Member

    ah yes, but midday in France is only 11.00 in UK

    scruff9252
    Full Member

    Ok, good to know I’m not losing the plot. There was no chat about lunchtimes and it was a UK based Co so no time zone issues.

    hypnotoad
    Free Member

    around half a day after midnight :p

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Midday is 12 noon.

    But personally if you asked me to “call back at midday” then I’d assume you meant “around the middle of the day” and not precisely 12.

    So I can kind of see his point.

    CountZero
    Full Member

    If I asked someone to call back its always ‘around’ a time, so I’d say around midday, or around noon, because I’d assume that the caller may have other calls that could take more or less time than an average, and I may not be in a position to take a call at an exact time.
    Asking for a fixed time as ‘midday is different for different people’ seems very pedantic.

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    The person asking is a moron. Midday is 12:00. ‘Around midday’ is 11:55 to 12:05.

    suburbanreuben
    Free Member

    But is it AM or PM?

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    But is it AM or PM?

    Exactly midday is neither AM or PM. It is just M.

    But given that midday – 1 yoctosecond is AM and midday + 1 yoctosecond is PM it’s really hard to spot that on your average watch 😀

    Junkyard
    Free Member

    I believe the reply is
    If you are to stupid to work it out dont call me back

    jota180
    Free Member

    But is it AM or PM?

    Generally………..

    Midnight is quoted as PM and noon as AM

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    Generally………..

    Midnight is quoted as PM and noon as AM

    Sure?

    Cougar
    Full Member

    It’s the other way around, isn’t it? Noon is, desperately confusingly, 12pm.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Thinking about it, it’s not am/pm which it’s the issue. Rather, the 12 on a clock face really should be a zero.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    It’s the other way around, isn’t it? Noon is, desperately confusingly, 12pm.

    I’d say so yes.

    As I hinted at above, exactly 12:00 Meridian is a theoretical infinitely small point in time.

    By definition any point you can imagine immediately before it would have to be 11:59:59.999999999999999999…… and therefore AM.

    Any point immediately after would be 12:00:00.00000000000000………..1 so PM

    PePPeR
    Full Member

    I won’t get into the mid day issue, but would like to mention that there is no midnight in the forces, it’s either 23:59hrs or 00:01hrs, I guess to stop confusion for just this reason as to which day is meant!

    BigJohn
    Full Member

    Midnight is quoted as PM and noon as AM

    I think you mean misquoted.

    And why is it called a 24 hour clock when it only goes to 23:59?

    5thElefant
    Free Member

    It’s when the sun is at it’s highest point. So it depends where you live.

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