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> There is now a called "12am
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/database?method=repor
> tRows&tbl=9>
> Central US is what where?" in the Databases section at the
> MEFAwards Yahoo
> site. I entered the US time zones (but didn't know a
> representative city for
> Mountain and someone in one of those places that doesn't
> participate in
> Daylight Savings Time could enter one of those) and the Czech
> Republic.

Hi Ainaechoiriel,
I think now I understand what kept me befuddled for so long
12 AM is not noon as I understood when you wrote:

> between 12:01am on the 31st and 12:01am on Nov. 1st. (I
> usually say 12:01
> am just so no one will be confused between midnight and noon
> or midnight on which day....).

But it is after midnight which I would write as 00:01 AM not as 12:01 AM.

So Amnesty day is from
00:01 = 00:01 AM early morning Central US time 31.October
until 23:59 = 11:59 PM Midnight 31. October,
just the whole day of 31. October in Central USA.
Do I understand it finally correctly ?

Sorry for being such a befuddled procrastinator
who constantly confuses AM and PM.


Though you wrote already very extensively about this
(I'm very grateful for this),
I did not understand why we could not send in our votes before
31. October while these additional votes would be counted
only on this special day.
You surely have a reason and I only failed to understand.

Many thanks for all your time and efforts you invested into this project
Elanor
Please excuse me for pestering you so often !

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "elanor of aquitania" <elanor@c...>
wrote:

> Hi Ainaechoiriel,
> I think now I understand what kept me befuddled for so long
> 12 AM is not noon as I understood when you wrote:
>
> > between 12:01am on the 31st and 12:01am on Nov. 1st. (I
> > usually say 12:01
> > am just so no one will be confused between midnight and noon
> > or midnight on which day....).
>
> But it is after midnight which I would write as 00:01 AM not as

12:01 AM.

Yes, using a 24hour system as opposed to the 12 hour one we use here
as standard. The reason I went with 11:59pm and 12:01am at times
was so it would be clearly understood which day we are talking about.

I remember the uncertainty of the midnight showings of TTT and ROTK.

We'd go buy a ticket but which day do you buy a ticket for. Is
midnight part o the previous day's night (as we talk colloquially) or
part of the next day's morning (which it is technically). We ended
up saying such things as "This is for the midnight showing, right?
I'll show up at the theater on Tuesday?" just to be sure we were on
the same page.

To avoid that confusion I went with 11:59pm (clearly part of the
night of one day) and 12:01am (clearly part of the next day).

> So Amnesty day is from
> 00:01 = 00:01 AM early morning Central US time 31.October
> until 23:59 = 11:59 PM Midnight 31. October,
> just the whole day of 31. October in Central USA.
> Do I understand it finally correctly ?
>
> Sorry for being such a befuddled procrastinator
> who constantly confuses AM and PM.

;-) Well, as you can see, when it comes to 12:00, we who are very
used to AM and PM can get confused as well.

> Though you wrote already very extensively about this
> (I'm very grateful for this),
> I did not understand why we could not send in our votes before
> 31. October while these additional votes would be counted
> only on this special day.
> You surely have a reason and I only failed to understand.

Us poor vote counters. I get 5 days off here soon. I'm finished
counting Men and Elves, but I've still got Hobbits. I'm not assigned
to Numenor, Rohan, Humor, or Adventure. So I've got 5 days to not
have to count. I get a break. :-)

And because there'd be no sense at all in closing categories if you
could just post them whenever. Which I did go into in great detail.
If we had them all just open for 1 1/2 months, I'd not likely have
anyone to help me count. We are all volunteers with our own real
lives to deal with (like a crashed server that's finally running
after I stayed up to 2:30am--0230).

> Many thanks for all your time and efforts you invested into this

project

> Elanor
> Please excuse me for pestering you so often !

Thanks, and no problem.

--Ainaechoiriel