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Dear Mr. Gates:

Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:15 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject: Explaining the AM and PM Time

The 12-hour clock is a timekeeping convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods:

1. ante meridiem ( a.m., from Latin, literally "before the middle of the day", idiomatically "approaching midday" ) , and

2. post meridiem ( p.m., "past midday" )

Each period consists of 12 hours numbered 12 (acting as zero), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. The a.m. period runs from midnight to noon, while the p.m. period runs from noon to midnight.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_Meridiem

Considering that the readers of these letters could be others than you, then as usual I should often make some explanations regarding some matters that could be misunderstood. This time it is about the difference of A.M. and P.M. in time, after I wrote my previous letter about my gathering with some ex-senior high school friend at Canton Bay restaurant.

In that letter of " A Moving Down Monthly Gathering from Crystal Jade to Canton Bay" there was a sentence "………approaching 2.30 pm, some of my friends began to leave the premise……..". It might have caused some misunderstandings, as if 2.30 PM was in the after midnight. This misunderstanding could have been caused by some experiences in reading some invitations in English, whereas usually the invitation time is 7 PM or 8 PM, which is in the evening. So PM is misunderstood as evening time, and AM is day time. And they could be too busy to find the answer about this AM and PM matter in the internet or in other sources.

Therefore I should explain about it here. PM has the meaning of post meridiem ( p.m., "past midday"), the p.m. period runs from noon to midnight.

Although in some invitations, 7 PM or 8 PM is in the evening, but that does not necessarily mean 1 PM or 2 PM or 3 PM are in the evening too, because the PM period is from the middle of the day to the middle of the night.

So the meaning of 2.30 PM is 2.30 o’clock past midday, or in the afternoon, not after midnight.

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Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:34 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject: Explaining Melbourne Is Not Only in Australia

Welcome to the Official Web Site of the City of Melbourne, Florida, USA, at http://www.melbourneflorida.org

The City of Melbourne is located on east central Florida's Space Coast, about an hour's drive south of the Kennedy Space Center, and 1-1/2 hours due east of Disney World.

On the morning of Dec. 22, 1888, a group of 23 qualified electors gathered to create the Village of Melbourne by a spoken vote, gaining the benefits provided to towns under Florida law. By evening, those pioneer settlers had elected their first officers and had settled on a corporate seal. It depicted a pineapple plant, along with a crane and a palmetto tree.

The area began to be called Melbourne eight years before the town was officially established. A name was needed because a post office was being established to serve families in the area. The first postmaster, Cornthwaite John Hector, was an Englishman who spent much of his life in Melbourne, Australia, before opening a general store at Crane Creek.

Source: http://www.melbourneflorida.org and http://www.melbourneflorida.org/info/history.htm

Another misunderstanding is about the city of Melbourne in Florida, U.S.A., which occurred in the caption of a photo in my letter around two years ago. It caused misunderstanding as if I have told a lie, because Melbourne is usually known as a city in Australia, not in the U.S.

So I herewith should explain here that besides the Melbourne in Australia, there is also another Melbourne in Florida, U.S.A. like could be viewed in the above maps.


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A.M. Firmansyah

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Tel. +62812 183 1538