To not be able to agree on this 'simple' question

[pooopypants]

Please help me answer, to DH, what has been an ongoing discussion for at least 4 weeks:

A shop closes at 12pm (midday) and reopens at 2pm the same day. 12pm on the dot, 2pm on the dot. How long is the shop closed for, in hours?

There's no riddle behind it, nothing to bend time, stop clocks etc etc

It's also not a trick question, we just can't agree and I can't find another way to explain this

And I thought I was bad at math!

He's actually fairly intelligent, degree level education, very senior job etc. Maths is a bit of a struggle sometimes

Well I knew standards were slipping and a degree doesn't mean much these days but even so...

That maths is a struggle is an understatement. Basic primary school arithmetic too!

Very senior job? Crikey. Hope he's not in charge of staff holidays, pay or budgets.

12pm is noon, 12am is midnight, at least here in the US. If I had a doctor's appointment and noon, they would never say noon on the appointment card, they would say 12pm. It might be different there. I thought you all actually used 24-hour time.

Is he in charge of ordering PPE for the NHS?

If he has a lunch hour at work from 12-1pm How long is his lunch?
If he has a lunch hour at work from 1pm-2pm How long is his lunch
If one day he goes for a skive and takes a lunch hour 12-2pm how long is his lunch. If he answers 3 hours then I'm sad for you!

I hope he's not in charge of home-schooling.

For years I wondered at 'on the third day He rose again', although Jesus died on Friday afternoon and the empty tomb was found on Sunday morning, which I would have called the second morning (Saturday, then Sunday). Someone explained to me that Jewish counting is (or was, in those days) inclusive: ie Friday: day 1, Saturday: day 2, Sunday: day 3, even if there's only a little bit of the day involved. So maybe your DH is doing inclusive counting: 12, 1 and 2, assuming that 2pm and half a second is involved. Not that it works for me; I'm clutching at straws and not very successfully.

I agree with PP, though, that 12 noon/midday is not post meridian - it is the meridian.

With reference to Jesus, I would say that the Friday was the first day He was dead. The Saturday the second day and the Sunday the third day, on which He rose. But I’ve never given it much thought to be fair.

@amicissimma

That’s not peculiarly Jewish is it? He died on day 1, did nothing on day 2 and rose on day 3.

If you fly to Spain and arrive on Monday afternoon, that’s day 1 of your holiday, and Wednesday is day 3.

Or am I missing something?

I met this girl on Monday
Took her for a drink on Tuesday
We were making love by Wednesday
And on Thursday and Friday and Saturday
We chilled on Sunday

Ask your DH if thats 7 or 8 days then pit him in a fight against Craig David.

wow
As Phoebe from Friends would say "Now I've seen everything!"

We NEED to see his diagram!

Clearly the answer is teo hours. Now that's all dealt with...

I always think it's wrong to say 12pm when you mean 12 noon. It's 11am so I think it ought, strictly speaking, to be 12am. Midnight is 00, after all. I always write 12 noon and midnight to be absolutely clear.

I totally get this. It goes 10am 11am 12 pm 1pm - always seems wrong in my head. PM starts high then goes low - it makes no sense!

I know that is correct. I use that. Still wrong though

OP come back we neeeeeeed to see his diagrams!!!

Yikes. I’d be filing for divorce as I’m not sure I could ever fancy him again. You’re very tolerant OP. Of course it’s two hours.

He's wrong, of course. Ask him how long his lunch hour is and when it starts / finishes. Or how many hours a day he works. I can't even get my head around what his thought process is.

Let him sit outside the chemist, and when it shuts at 12.00.. get him to start a stop watch.
Then when the chemist opens at 14.00.. he can see 2 hrs have passed..
double bonus points.. he's out of the house for 2 hours.. and realised his a dick.

Why does the Daily Mail never take up these type of threads? The one where men can’t back down....

OP keep quiet and find a way to turn this to your advantage.

@PamDenick I’d argue women are more likely to make this mistake than men are

Op, I guess he can’t tell time?

To argue it’s three hours is more than “he struggles a bit with math”, it’s he can’t add one and one and he doesn’t understand time. That’s into additional needs territory, so shouldn’t be involved in finances or anything to do with the kids and arithmetic.

It’s actually terrifying that someone can become an adult and not be able to tell the time

Plenty of people have additional needs and can’t tell time or add up one and one. I can’t believe he is educated to degree and has a senior job though, that doesn’t tally at all.

OMG. There's more than one of them.

This morning DP mentions that his FB memory of the day has told him that on this day in 2011 we were on holiday and that was ten years ago.

Thinking of this thread and fighting the urge to roar with laughter, I just say that, no that's 9 years ago isn't it?

To which he replies 'no it's ten, and counts out 2011, 2012 …… , 2020 on his fingers and holds up all ten fingers and thumbs and repeats 'ten years' to which I reply that, if someone was born on 1 May 2011, they would be 9 years old today, at which he went back to browsing shite on FB and I watched the weather.

I don't expect him to mention it again, or for us to spend the next month rowing about it, but he's gone to work now, so I have to decide whether to spend the day arranging for the locks to be changed or digging the footings for a new patio...… .

I would wait for a day when it is heavy rain and get him to stand outside the chemist from 12-2 and see if he gets it then.