AM/PM, [was] Sexagesimal (was Newbie - Variation..)
Subject: AM/PM, [was] Sexagesimal (was Newbie - Variation..)
From: Jared Sherman (jared.sherman@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 10:12:30 EST
Yves-
<It's nice to see that the NIST wants> That's not what the NIST alone wants. Look at every "Manual of Style" used by any writer or editor. The habit of 12AM/12PM is a popular mistake best attributed to illiteracy, something that we all suffer from to some degree. Actually a double and sometimes triple mistake since the AM/PM are supposed to be small caps when written, never upper case, never lower case, never used with periods in them.
Or it could just be our Colonial misappropriation...Surely, "meridien" means the whole bit came from France and was not started here? In school we were taught "midi", not even "meridien".
