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JM? *ponder* JM... Ante-meridian, post-meridian... Juxtaposed meridian?
Oh, Dan - 17:xx AM would be a paradox, rather than a tautology. There's your differentiation!
Look at it this way: Dan wrote 82 minutes past the hour. From that it stands to reason that he's extending the bounds of the clock. As such, Occam's Razor suggests that the 17 is not so much a jump from 12-hour AM/PM notation to 24-hour notation, but rather an extension of the PM period beyond 12 "hours" in the same way that he extended the hour beyond 60 minutes.
Not deviating from such a paradigm, why, one may ask, must one be limited to only two meridiems? Hence my suggestion of JM. What's it stand for? I have no idea whatsoever. Why J? Because most of the other abbreviations I came up with (YM, XM, TM, SM, RM, GM, FM, ...) already come with contextual baggage.
Based on Kaufman's post, I hypothesis that Dan is actually on or from the moon Europa. He stated a time of 17:82pm indicating a minimum 36 hour day based on 100 minute hours assuming that each minute is equal to one minute on earth as a base unit of temporal measurement. The total is 3600 minutes or equivilent to 60 earth hours or 2.5 earth days. For a moon/planet to meet the criteria it must have a rotational time exceeding 60 earth hours.
The most likely candidate is Jupiter's moon, Europa, with an 85.228344 earth hour rotation. That equals 5113.70064 minutes (60 * 85.228344). Since we are dealing with a 100 minute hour, that means that a Day on Europa, baring Jupitarian Eclipses, is 51.1370064 hours long. The day is probably calculated as 51 hours, 25am, 25pm, and a noon hour. The remainding time is then added as a "leap day" every 372 days/years. It should be noted that Europa orbits jupiter every single europan day which also makes it a Jupitarian year. The other explanation is that since Europa orbits jupiter at such a high velocity, that Einstein's Theory of Relavitivty comes into play and that the remainding time actually does not exist since Europa is traveling closer to the speed of light than the Earth.
I would elaborate on the solar caculations, but I'm late for my medicine.
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