September 2

[ijdgaf]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Sturgeon was the actual name of the poor, poor sap in the episode. Â As was Green.

And was that a Canada joke?  Let's just say the only Canada jokes I'm qualified to make are about ketchup flavored potato chips (you lucky Canadian bastards you  :swear: )[/colorost_uid0]

[Derek]

[quoteost_uid0="Marc"][color=#000000ost_uid0]This is a convention used (for instance in collective agreements and other such contracts) to make sure that one is referring to an unambiguous date and time.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Thanks for the explanation, Marc. I'm not sure how 12:01am makes the time unambiguous though. Isn't saying 2 in the morning just as ambiguous? If someone says to me that there will be a party starting on the 25th at 2am, do they mean the 2am on the actual morning of the 25th or the actual morning of the 26th? Doesn't the ambiguity come from the fact that people still consider early morning to be the night of the previous day?

Oh well. It doesn't matter much for me anyway. I'm not planning on seeing the first showing either way.[/colorost_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quoteost_uid0="ijdgaf"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Sturgeon was the actual name of the poor, poor sap in the episode. Â As was Green.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Okay. I remembered Green and Darnell, and their names are found in the credits on any number of sites. It's just been too long since I've seen this (or [iost_uid0]any[/iost_uid0] TOS, for that matter. )[/colorost_uid0]

[Marc]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]>> I'm not sure how 12:01am makes the time unambiguous though. Isn't saying 2 in the morning just as
ambiguous? If someone says to me that there will be a party starting on the 25th at 2am, do they mean the 2am on the actual morning of
the 25th or the actual morning of the 26th? Doesn't the ambiguity come from the fact that people still consider early morning to be the
night of the previous day? <<

It's not ambiguous if you think of "dates" as opposed to "days". People often think of "days" as starting and stopping at unofficial points -- like when they get up and when they go to sleep, or in nighttime-versus-daytime terms. People who stay up past midnight are still in the same *day* as far as they're concerned (since their day ends when they go to sleep), but they've actually straddled two different *dates*.

For official purposes (and as far as the little clock at the bottom right corner of your computer's screen is concerned), a particular *date* (like December 25th, for instance) begins at midnight and ends the following midnight. So officially, 2 a.m. on the 25th can't be anything other than 2 a.m. on the 25th. It's vague time designations like "party starting on the morning of the 25th" (with no time given) that are open to misinterpretation and which could conceivably mean the 26th -- especially if you're already sloshed on eggnog at the time of the invitation.[/colorost_uid0]

[Kira]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Yeah, theonering.net is where I heard about it. Â (For the record, they get news out way faster than the official site; I highly recommend it.)

[quoteost_uid0="Guest"]I would guess that the "participating theaters" will be announced immediately prior to tickets going on sale.[/quoteost_uid0]

Yeah, New Line hasn't revealed which theatres will be hosting the re-releases yet but I suspect they'll do so before December. Â I think I read that it would be in 20 theatres in Canada, but I can't remember where I saw that.[/colorost_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quoteost_uid0="Kira"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Yeah, theonering.net is where I heard about it. Â (For the record, they get news out way faster than the official site; I highly recommend it.)[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]They have the added benefit of being [iost_uid0]legible[/iost_uid0], for those of us without 21" monitors. [/colorost_uid0]

[Derek]

[quoteost_uid0="Marc"][color=#000000ost_uid0]For official purposes (and as far as the little clock at the bottom right corner of your computer's screen is concerned), a particular *date* (like December 25th, for instance) begins at midnight and ends the following midnight.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Right, and my computer thinks that the start of a new day begins at midnight, 12:00am. If my computer understands the idea that midnight belongs to the domain of the following day, why don't movie theatres?

(Not attacking you, Marc. I appreciate you trying to defend them, but I don't see how 12:00am on the 25th is any more ambiguous than 2:00am on the 25th. People don't start New Year's celebrations at 12:01am; they start at 12:00am.)[/colorost_uid0]

[Kira]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]I think the reason they often play movies at 12:01am is that (a) it's the earliest they can do it on the given release date and (b) 12:00am could be argued as being ambiguous, i.e. actually still being the day before since it's the transition point. (Yes, common sense says otherwise, but since when is common sense actually common?) So, they use 12:01am, stay unambiguous, and play the movie at the earliest possible moment.[/colorost_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]It doesn't matter whether they mark it down as 12:00 AM, 12:01 AM, or 12:05 AM, because they're going to show 20-25 minutes of "previews" anyway. [/colorost_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]We had a problem with this at walmart, the night [iost_uid0]before[/iost_uid0]
the last harry potter book was releised. some smuck put on the sign "Buy it at midnight on June 20" so of course we had people showing up the night of the 19th looking for it. :eyeroll: what a headache. (couse the next night was worse.)[/colorost_uid0]