• Tagger
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      232 years ago

      I dunno, people get confused by 12pm often, this feels like a relatively elegant solution.

      • Dojan
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        322 years ago

        Solution could be to learn what AM and PM means. Ante meridiem (before midday) and post meridiem (after midday).

        Or use 24h time. Then you can omit the midday factor altogether.

        • @[email protected]
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          352 years ago

          Well, the definitions aren’t really all that helpful. 12pm is neither before nor after midday, while 12am is exactly 12 hours before and after midday.

          • @[email protected]
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            62 years ago

            Easy way to think about it is that 12 is actually the 0th hour.

            0 AM and 0 PM make more sense.

            I wish everyone just used military time.

            0:00 to 23:59. Nothing to screw up.

          • Dojan
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            -102 years ago

            Okay if somehow one can’t figure out that night comes after day, then one can hopefully count and know that 12 comes after 1. 1AM is in the middle of the night so 11 hours later, 12AM would be noon. 12AM obviously doesn’t come before 1AM, thus midnight is 12PM, because midnight is when one day rolls over to the next and you get morning (or before midday) again.

            • @[email protected]
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              242 years ago

              Crazy thing is I can’t tell if you explained it incorrectly on purpose to show how confusing it is, or if you did it accidentally.

            • @[email protected]
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              222 years ago

              Except the most widespread definition is the other way around: 12am is midnight and 12pm is noon. As that source argues, 12:01 during the day is clearly after noon, so it must be pm.

              In the end my point stands: You can argue both ways and it is confusing.

              • @[email protected]
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                82 years ago

                I think it would be weird going from 12am (ante meridiem = before noon) to 12:01pm (post meridiem = after noon), therefore 12pm must come right before 12:01pm, so 12pm is noon.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 years ago

          I can never differ between am and pm, because we don’t use that here - well, at least I always mix it up

          mn instead was very intuitive