bbc sky at night

[the 5th race]

hi so it says on the sky at night web site that it is showing at 00:40 tonight but when i checked tv listings their is no sign of it on bbc listings and radio times dont no if i will stay up now

[tbird]

BBC 4, 19:30 tomorrow according to this BBC - BBC One Programmes - The Sky at Night, Age of the Infrared

[JamesF]

I have the following listed:

Thu 16/02 7:30pm, BBC4

Fri 17/02 1:05am, BBC4

Sat 18/02 12:00pm, BBC2

Sun 19/02 1:10am, BBC4

I assume the Saturday showing is midday, but I'm never sure what people mean when they give 12:00 as being am or pm. To my way of thinking, both 12:00am and 12:00pm should be midnight.

James

[x6gas]

I have the following listed:

Thu 16/02 7:30pm, BBC4

Fri 17/02 1:05am, BBC4

Sat 18/02 12:00pm, BBC2

Sun 19/02 1:10am, BBC4

I assume the Saturday showing is midday, but I'm never sure what people mean when they give 12:00 as being am or pm. To my way of thinking, both 12:00am and 12:00pm should be midnight.

James

12:00am = 00:00hrs = midnight; 12:00pm = 12:00hrs = noon

HTH, Ian

[JamesF]

12:00am = 00:00hrs = midnight; 12:00pm = 12:00hrs = noon

HTH, Ian

But why should it be so?

pm means "post meridiem", or "after midday", so 12:00pm is the twelve o'clock that occurs after midday, ie. midnight.

am means "ante meridiem", or "before midday", so 12:00am is the twelve o'clock that occurs before midday, ie. midnight.

Personally I always refer to the midday one as "noon".

The case could be made, I guess, that since it's also potentially vague whether 12:00 midnight on 15th Feb means the start of the day or the end of it, it might be clearer to use 12:00am 15th Feb to mean midnight at the start of the day, and 12:00pm 15th Feb to mean midnight at the end of the day. I'd suggest that way madness lies, however

James

[JamesF]

Ooh, and look, I'm even backed up by no less an authority than the National Maritime Museum/Royal Observatory:

Is noon 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.? : Time FAQs : Time fact files : Astronomy & time : Explore online : RMG

James

[ythanpythan]

What about BST!

[c3po]

why not just have the Beeb use a 24hr clock?

[Tinker1947]

And this particular show has some really nice images....

[onesmallstep]

Hi

If you wanted to double-check the times I post a TV listings text file for the coming week in the Heads Up section.

HTH!

[the 5th race]

sorry guys i didnot see the northan ireland only part