re: If you have a meeting at 10am and move it FORWARD 2 hours

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Noon

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Ok, pretty sure all you ‘Noon’ people are just trolling us at this point .

Good job, cause yall actually had me going and i thought half of this board was just that stupid.. i realize we’re not all Rhodes Scholars here, but that level of ignorance would be kinda staggering .

If you get moved up in line you are served sooner. If you get moved up a grade, you advance from 7th to 8th.

In golf if I club up, I go from an 8 iron to a 7, clubbing down how’s from 8 to 9 iron.

Hope this helps……now my head hurts.

I'd say I don't do forward meetings

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As we move forward in time, 10am becomes 11am and 11am becomes noon.

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And we call those times LATER.


As in Later in the day.

Forward in this context would be earlier.
How is this hard?

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It's not "hard", it's ambiguous. By your own logic forward is later and backward is earlier, yet you flipped it and asked what's hard about it. When you move a clock forward, you change it to a later time. Why, then, would moving an event to an earlier time be "forward"?

And if you were to go backward in time via time machine, you would go to an earlier time.


What about this context means we should reverse our natural forward/backward description of time?

also, ive never once heard someone say they needed to move a meeting forward.

so this is just dumb all around

2.
relating to or concerned with the future.
"a twelve-month forward forecast"

Also who would make the statement of moving the meeting forward without clarifying the time of forward.

Just state the time of the meeting. Not very hard.

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forward and backward are opposites. If someone is talking about a 10am meeting and says "sorry I have to move this back 2 hours", there is zero confusion and it's universally understood that the meeting is at noon. Therefore moving it "forward" has to be 8am.

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This is the best answer.

Totally separate conversation, moving a meeting from 10am to 8am without 24 hours notice or a reach out to each person on the meeting is unprofessional behavior and will probably result in half the group missing the first and the the ones that show up will have wasted that hour, but I digress and if the OP was a troll, , you got me.

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also, ive never once heard someone say they needed to move a meeting forward.

so this is just dumb all around

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You never had to have a meeting or a deadline "pushed back"? What is the opposite of that? Forward/up.

Not all that dumb.

If you have a meeting at 3 and push it back 50 minutes, what time is the meeting?

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how could any sentient being think that ‘forward’ actually means back in time 2 hrs, which is what 12 noon would be if the original meeting was at 10am ?

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But 12 noon is forward in time from 10am. And if it was 12 noon, you would have to go backward in time to get to 10am.


The problem is that it's well-understood that moving an event "back" means pushing it off further into the future, but the opposite "forward" is kind of ambiguous because people just don't say that.