Agent-347
Student Council President
If you say "Every saturday at 01:30" you'll have some people confused or raging whether it's fridaynight (the actual saturday time) or saturdaynight (the sunday time)... Though most of the time it'll be the latter that is meant by the television company/channel. Saying "Saturday at 00:10" when actually talking about sunday is definitely wrong though, "saturday at 24:10" isn't really wrong but still is. It's just a bit odd as there are only 24 hours a day, but it sets the record straight actually.Joshawott said:Why not just say 01:30 and 02:00? Seems ridiculous just for the sake of being ridiculous.Mohawk52 said:That's "broadcast scheduling time" speak, for 0130-0200. a broadcast day starts at 0600 not 0000Joshawott said:"25:30"?, "26:00"? Wut?
Also, 10pm is considered time for junior high and high school kids? Double wut?
In fact, I know a real example of this "wrong" usage of time+date locally: On TeenNick Flanders the series O'Grady has premiered recently, and is airing "every saturday and sunday at 00:10".. That while it's actually airing every sunday and monday according to the time+date combination. And I actually forgot about it the second day it was airing on monday because the promo says "saturday and sunday".
And as stated by Mohawk52, a broadcast day starts at 6AM, so everything prior during the night will still act as if it's the day prior to the date it's actually airing at at that moment in time, so in some way it feels way more suitable to treat it as the day prior. (And at least locally ratings at night up to 2AM are noted at 24:xx & 25:xx. And the big commercial channel notes all programs at night via the 24:xx, 25:xx, 26:xx,... system)
Maybe you should ask yourself now, if you're talking about tomorrow on sunday at 00:15 (prior to going to bed), are you talking about tomorrow as in sunday or as in monday? I guess you'll answer "sunday", and that's wrong as well, it's "today" then. Same counts for yesterday at that time.
So my point is: it is not ridiculous (in my opinion), it's a common "mistake" and something that is unfortunate in the current time-system.
Though I must say I can get annoyed by the use of "last/this/next week" by companies (and others). In the weekend I never know whether to expect it in the actual "this week" or in the actual "next week". The same counts for "Soon", companies tend to mean "somewhere in the next 2/3/4/6 months" with it, but others tend to mean "this month", "later today", "later this week" etc. with it...