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| Muttley Snickers:
If the OP made only one bid of $250 why then do they have two time stamped bids 16 seconds apart ?, yet the opponents time stamps are all the same. I thought the autobids were always applied and stamped at the time of the initial ceiling bid. |
| Deni:
I have explained that - first I placed $55 bid and then decided to place $250 auto-bid a few seconds later. |
| Deni:
--- Quote --- They are unambiguous. They are just illogical to us, because we are aware of the concept of zero. --- End quote --- Well, NIST does think so (https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/times-day-faqs) - see first line after sub-title "Are noon and midnight referred to as 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.?" And I take them as pretty good authority on the subject ;) |
| Muttley Snickers:
--- Quote from: Deni on February 14, 2020, 06:34:26 pm ---I have an odd situation here. I saw an interesting instrument on e-bay and placed auto-bid with $250 as a limit.... --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Deni on February 14, 2020, 10:49:41 pm ---I have explained that - first I placed $55 bid and then decided to place $250 auto-bid a few seconds later. --- End quote --- Thanks, I interpreted your opening post as meaning you placed one single bid of $250. |
| I wanted a rude username:
--- Quote from: Deni on February 14, 2020, 10:53:13 pm ---see first line after sub-title "Are noon and midnight referred to as 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.?" --- End quote --- I already mentioned that technicality, and the practice is that every device that tells the time in this way (12 hour with AM/PM indicator) flips the indicator at the same time that the hour becomes 12. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Show us a single instance of a device that does not behave this way and we might believe you. However, this is a distraction from all the other problems inherent in the 12-hour system. And it raises the question: why is a Croatian using eBay in 12-hour time, in the US Pacific timezone? |
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