R&S APC Returns!
Powerhouse
"Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon," which hasn't aired a new episode in
over a year, will finally resume first-run installments on Friday, August
20 at 12:00pm on Spike TV.
Ted
12PM is noon. Is that accurate? If it's AM, that's the midnight between
Thursday and Friday.
So, is it actually at noon on Friday like it says, the midnight between
Friday and Saturday, or the midnight between Thursday and Friday?
Kohn Jerry
Noon. There is no such thing as 12:00AM or 12:00PM. It's either 12:00
midnight or 12:00 Noon. Any second or fraction therof past Noon is PM
and any second or fraction therof past Midnight is AM.
In the 24 hour clock system or "military time", 00:00:00 is precisely
midnight and 12:00:00 is precisely noon.
Ted
Kohn Jerry wrote:
>
> 12:00:01 AM is one second past Midnight. 12:00:01 PM is one second past
> Noon. There is no such thing as 12:00AM or 12:00PM. It's either 12:00
> midnight or 12:00 Noon. Any second or fraction therof past Noon is PM
> and any second or fraction therof past Midnight is AM.
Based on the fiction (contravened in most places at most times by our
time zones) that the sun is before or after the meridian, thus defining
AM or PM. However, that is not helpful in determining when a television
show is on when it is scheduled at 12AM or 12PM. In terms of digital
time pieces, they seem to be standardized in terms of: AM is AM from
Midnight until 11:59:59 AM is done, and that the noon 12:00:00 is PM,
and PM sticks around until 11:59:59 PM is done. This also provides a way
of telling the day one is associating a given midnight to.
Actually, why is 12:00:00 midnight for an entire second? Isn't midnight
a moment in time? Isn't it more sensibly defined as a moment in Planck
time at the very beginning of 12:00:00, making that moment noon, but the
vast majority of the second PM?
At any rate, TV stations define the night of day X as extending for a
few hours into the early morning of day Y. If you are looking at a grid,
this isn't an issue even if a station has decided to ignore all the
digital time pieces around them and decided to call midnight 12PM and
Noon 12AM, and even TV stations will tend to say "12:30AM" if that's the
time. However, when you are looking at a single line entry that says
12PM, it's impossible to tell if the time is meant to be noon or
midnight because of the way digital time pieces keep time (saying 12PM
is noon) and how TV stations often but not always keep time (which is
often but not always that 12PM means midnight). The implication here is,
if they're going to be showing Naked Beach Frenzy (and if it's at
midnight, it'd better be unblurred) that the time is midnight. But this
brings up the next issue, which is that stations will sometimes assign
midnight to the day before (usually based on their calling midnight part
of the previous night's programming) or will assign it to the next day
(in keeping with how digital time usually functions), regardless of how
they notate midnight. If they were being logical, calling midnight 12PM
associates it with the day before. But then, if they were being logical,
TV would have adopted the digital standard long ago across the board.
Steve Carras
Any thing you say, Kohn Jerry.
Signed
Beorge Gush
July 19,3005
Wumpy
Consult your local listings.
Ted
I'm bumping this so we don't forget.
Anyone seen a proper listing for it yet in any of the various guides?
Spike's site still doesn't have a listing for the show (it has RnS
Classics, but not APC).