When?
Posted: Fri 15 July, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts 2 Comments »As the world and its dog knows, the new Harry Potter book comes out tonight. Well, technically it’s tomorrow.
One of the shops here has it listed as “midnight Friday” for the release of the book, and they’ll be open at “midnight Friday” in order for people to buy it. Now, while I have to wonder about anyone who’s going to hang about in Wokingham town centre at midnight for a book (when they could get Amazon to deliver it a mere eight hours later at about half the price) I also have to wonder whether “midnight Friday” is the correct term.
I would say that “midnight Friday” equates with “one minute after 11.59pm on Thursday”. Really it should be “midnight Saturday”, shouldn’t it?
Now you’re being picky Lyle.
Picky… and wrong, IMHO.
Tonight it will be Monday night. All night. Twelve hours after midday, it will be the middle of the night. The middle of Monday night. Therefore, midnight Monday.