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   penwing (they/them) (penwing@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 17:34:50 JST penwing (they/them)

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   • dB Cooper

   @CoolerPseudonym I never really got my head around it, so I make up for it by only using 24hour clock or by specifiying “noon” or “midnight”

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     dB Cooper (coolerpseudonym@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 17:34:55 JST dB Cooper

     In chapter eight of Wodehouse’s “the Code of the Woosters”, when Stiffie Byng sets up a meeting for twelve ‘pip emma’, it’s clear she means midnight—it should have been twelve ‘ack emma’.

     Unless in England, or in England of the past, midnight is twelve p.m.

     This has long puzzled me

     #Wodehouse #JeevesAndWooster #CodeOfTheWoosters