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Letter: On the dot

Published 2 March 1996

From Michael Jackson

I read with interest Michael Pinder’s “Time for a change” (Forum, 10 February, p 45). I was taken aback when I read there this sentence: “And does it have to be 12 am just because the Sun is overhead”?

No, it does not have to be am, it has to be pm.

Issue no. 2019 published 2 March 1996

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