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Midnight?

  • 20-11-2008 5:56pm
    #1
    cch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭


    Settle an argument please!

    If someone says "midnight Saturday" should they mean the 12am between Friday night and Saturday morning, or between Saturday night and Sunday morning?


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  • #2
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    I'd say Saturday night, Sunday morning


  • #3
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Saturday night/Sunday Morning


  • #4
    drunkymonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭drunkymonkey


    i would take it as the saturday night and sunday morning!

    what did you take it as??


  • #5
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    Ciaran500 wrote: »
    Saturday night/Sunday Morning

    +1


  • #6
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    they mean midnight saturday as in the middle of saturday night
    this does not occur on friday night


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  • #7
    andrew
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,372 Mod ✭✭✭✭andrew


    saturday night/sunday morning. Anything else and you're a completely moronic moron person.


  • #8
    pierrot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭pierrot


    midnight. so its night. after 11.59 saturday night


  • #9
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    andrew wrote: »
    saturday night/sunday morning. Anything else and you're a completely moronic moron person.

    or french


  • #10
    Berty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,158 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    Midnight Friday would be friday night and Midnight on Saturday would be Saturday.

    How about next Saturday. Do you mean the saturday coming because its the next Saturday or do you mean Saturday after the coming Saturday. :eek:


  • #11
    lostinnappies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭lostinnappies


    midnight saturday would imply you are counting hours on saturday, and 12 am would sujest that you have not yet made the transition into sunday (does not happen until 12am and 1 second lol)


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  • #12
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Tuesday.


  • #13
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,596 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    midnight saturday would be saturday night :rolleyes:

    oh hang on
    which midnight did you mean 00:00 or 24:00 ??


  • #14
    SoWatchaWant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭SoWatchaWant


    cch wrote: »
    Settle an argument please!

    If someone says "midnight Saturday" should they mean the 12am between Friday night and Saturday morning, or between Saturday night and Sunday morning?

    Is this about some horrible misunderstanding where you waited for your friends who never came?

    Ah look, if that's what it was, there should be no misunderstanding about that between two people who aren't idiots. Easy to clarify!


  • #15
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    24:00

    ...blasphemy.


  • #16
    Frisbee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,571 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    Saturday night/ Sunday Morning


  • #17
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    midnight saturday would be saturday night :rolleyes:

    oh hang on
    which midnight did you mean 00:00 or 24:00 ??
    If any one should know it would be this guy. He is the captain of it.


  • #18
    longshanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    If any one should know it would be this guy. He is the captain of it.

    eh no. no. capt'n is short for captured 'nipples. apparently


  • #19
    Freewheeling Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭Freewheeling Ed


    Tigger wrote: »
    or french

    or german


  • #20
    Bob the Builder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    Midnight Saturday is one minute after 11:59pm, on saturday at 00:00 (or 12am).

    check it on the clock on your computer against the date.


  • #21
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    even my watch is smart enough not to start rolling over the day-dial until around 4/5AM.


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  • #22
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Between the Saturday and the Sunday.

    Why, did you go meet your date the Friday night and think you had gotten stood up?

    NTM


  • #23
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    Is the other person German?

    I know I've had a similar problem when I told my German boss I'd be in at half Eight, which I took as 08:30 but he took as 07:30 or halfway to eight.


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    can i ask which one the OP thought it was?

    definitely saturday night btw this question shouldn't even exist


  • #25
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    BOFH_139 wrote: »
    Is the other person German?

    I know I've had a similar problem when I told my German boss I'd be in at half Eight, which I took as 08:30 but he took as 07:30 or halfway to eight.

    Thats because of the way the German language works.

    Sieben = seven
    Halb sieben = 6:30 to a German as the words directly translate as half way to seven, as our way of saying it, half seven = half way past seven.

    What always helped me, the German phrase is thinking into the future and Germany is 1 or 2 hours ahead of us.


  • #26
    BroomBurner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    Thats because of the way the German language works.

    Sieben = seven
    Halb sieben = 6:30 to a German as the words directly translate as half way to seven, as our way of saying it, half seven = half way past seven.

    What always helped me, the German phrase is thinking into the future and Germany is 1 or 2 hours ahead of us.

    My brain hurts


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