3 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

“16:00 pm”. Oh dear, oh dear. Has no one at Microsoft learnt how the 24 hour clock system works? 🤨

Maybe they have to write it like that to avoid legal hassles or being sued. Whatever happens the servers are going to meltdown.

Edited November 14, 20241 yr by 40track

23 hours ago, 40track said:

Maybe they have to write it like that to avoid legal hassles or being sued. Whatever happens the servers are going to meltdown.

They could have used a fixed local time so that the global release would be staggered.  But then the VPNs would meltdown.

On 11/14/2024 at 9:45 AM, Ray Proudfoot said:

“16:00 pm”. Oh dear, oh dear. Has no one at Microsoft learnt how the 24 hour clock system works? 🤨

Actually, 16:00 post meridiem on the 19th would literally be 4:00 ante meridiem on the 20th.

26 minutes ago, Grindathotte said:

They could have used a fixed local time so that the global release would be staggered.  But then the VPNs would meltdown.

Sure sounded strange and yes PM being post meridian most likely for the NDA being lifted.

Expect real issues day 1 no doubt. 

Edited November 15, 20241 yr by 40track

3 hours ago, 40track said:

PM being post meridian

while we wait for MSFS 2024, only for those interested in some latin:

"post meridiem" is not "post meridian" (meri-diem from medius dies, mid day in latin). 4 post meridiem = 4 hours after mid day, as the roman pilots used to say.

that's all greek to me. 🤣

Edited November 15, 20241 yr by turbomax

1 hour ago, Grindathotte said:

Actually, 16:00 post meridiem on the 19th would literally be 4:00 ante meridiem on the 20th.

Depends where in the world you live. It wouldn’t for me living in England.

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Depends where in the world you live. It wouldn’t for me living in England.

no.

4 p.m. "per se" is 4 p.m. local time = 4 hours after mid day local time, where ever you may live. only 4 p.m. "GMT" makes it an absolute world wide valid reference. that's why they listed these time zone tables:

Edited November 15, 20241 yr by turbomax

11 minutes ago, turbomax said:

no.

4 p.m. "per se" is 4 p.m. local time = 4 hours after mid day local time, where ever you may live.

The poster never mentioned local time in his post.

42 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

The poster never mentioned local time in his post.

you replied to:

 "Grindathotte said:" "16:00 post meridiem on the 19th would literally be 4:00 ante meridiem on the 20th. "

4.p.m. without mentioning a time zone is usually assumed local time, which is not automatically GMT.

But local time or not that is here NOT the question 😃,  Grindathotte's statement is interesting and true nevertheless, independent of where you live and therefore also true even in your England, with or without GMT.

"16:00 post meridiem on the 19th would literally be 4:00 ante meridiem on the 20th"

and that is true world wide, except that this was more of an academic play on words and was fun nevertheless.

have we now said all that there is to 16:00 .p.m.?
😃

Edited November 15, 20241 yr by turbomax

4 hours ago, turbomax said:

while we wait for MSFS 2024, only for those interested in some latin:

"post meridiem" is not "post meridian" (meri-diem from medius dies, mid day in latin). 4 post meridiem = 4 hours after mid day, as the roman pilots used to say.

that's all greek to me. 🤣

Confusing to say the least.

Edited November 15, 20241 yr by 40track

On 11/14/2024 at 6:27 AM, MrFuzzy said:

so what's the point of this thread actually?

The original poster was confused when the 19th was. It had nothing to do with Timezones, other people brought that up.

Edited November 15, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

1 hour ago, turbomax said:

have we now said all that there is to 16:00 .p.m.?

I have.

2 hours ago, 40track said:

Confusing to say the least.

such are facts and nothing but the truth.

Edited November 15, 20241 yr by turbomax

We live in all different places. But on the day of release we all move to.....

27 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

But on the day of release we all move to.....

not a good idea when this time MSFS 2024 lands 1 hour later in Kiribati than everywhere else? at least according to MS's release schedule. 4:00 a.m. GILT time is not before anybody else ( probably just  a mistake in their Global Arrival Times schedule for Kiribati, GILT time zone).

Kiribati should be 4:00 am, but according to Microsoft's release schedule is 1 hour later at 5:00 a.m. 😃

https://savvytime.com/converter/gilt-to-cet-pst-gmt-utc/nov-19-2024/5-30am

 

Edited November 15, 20241 yr by turbomax