Lets Talk About Time

At some point in my life, I learned about time. Back in the day, I learned how to tell time first on a normal watch face. It was only after I could tell time doing it the traditional way that my dad showed me there was such a thing as a digital watch. One of the first things I learned was that when the clock strikes midnight, a new day starts. Therefore tonight will be Tuesday until 1159pm. At midnight it becomes Wednesday.

Seems simple enough and I imagine that many of you would agree with me that is how it is done. Well, apparently if you work for a movie theatre you use a different calendar. If, one would for example have a ticket to see Harry Potter that says Thursday 12:01 a.m., you would think it would be two minutes past the conclusion of Wednesday night. Not so. Thursday at 12:01 a.m, actually means Friday at 12:01 a.m in the world of movie theatre times. It is also probably why they are a day early for New Years celebrations and why so many movie managers get anniversaries and birthdays wrong.

I know Harry Potter opens on Friday. I decided for once in my life to go do the whole midnight thing so bought tickets. The funny thing was they said Thursday. Odd. The movie is a Friday opening, not Thursday. When I printed out the tickets it also said Thursday. I went to other movie theatre websites and checked their pages. They all said Thursday morning. So, was this some special thing? Was I going to get to see the movie a full 24 hours early just because I was willing to go at midnight? Nope. I called some theatres and they say they do that because otherwise people get confused. Oh, and this way works so much better for people who can actually tell time.