can 'good morning' be used to wish someone we meet first time in a day irrespective of time?

Question

x meets y at 6pm in a day for the first time on that particular day.
how should he greet y
good morning or
good evening

Answer 1

If you are using the time of day in your greeting, the manner in which you greet someone is directly related to the time of day you are presently in. If x meets y at 6pm the proper greeting is good evening. How often x met y throughout the day is irrelevant.

Answer 2

X should greet Y with "Good evening."

We should only give greetings to a person once a day.
For example, we do not say 'good morning' to a person when we meet that person twice in the morning. Instead, we say, "Hello again."

So, good evening would be the appropriate greeting if X meets Y at 6pm.

Answer 3

Wish Someone A Good Day

Answer 4

I feel its inappropriate to greet someone 'good morning' at 6pm. If its a formal greeting to a person, maybe you could use 'good evening'. If its an informal meeting, just use 'hi', 'hello' or even ' waz up'.

Answer 5

In Hawaii he could say Aloha. Buenus Diaz means good morning but also good day and six is not tarde and definitly not noche. But bon Jour is another greeting to consider. So yes Good Morning may be in different places a nice way to say nice to meet you.

Answer 6

'Good morning' goes from early morning until 12 noon, then it's 'good afternoon' until 6 PM, then it's 'good evening'. To avoid picky people looking at their watch and correcting me when I'm five minutes early or late (happens a *lot*, I think they are trying to be funny but I think it's very annoying) I tend to say 'good day' a lot, especially when it's not too far from noon or 6PM. I never have to deal with customers at night so 'good day' always works :)

Answer 7

Good morning is appropriate from 12:00 (am-midnight) until 11:59 (am-morning) only.

other greetings are used later in the day: good afternoon, good evening, and finally before retiring and leaving your friends or nodding off to sleep, good night.

Answer 8

Good Morning should only be used in the morning. After that Good Afternoon or Good Evening will do nicely. :)

Answer 9

Good evening, of course. Morning is a greeting upto noon, after that it is Good afternoon, then Good evening.
Good bye, when you say farewell.

Answer 10

AFter 12pm/noon, it's no longer morning. If you see them at 6pm, just say hi. When you part, say "have a good evening".