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Well anyone who has ever encountered another 12am or 12pm before, which is fairly common. I would guess 99.9%
by akvadrako 9y ago
Well anyone who has ever encountered another 12am or 12pm before, which is fairly common. I would guess 99.9%
- comicjk 9y agoIf you assume that people remember the solutions to every problem they've ever encountered, I would not like to use the kind of user interface you would create! Here's the Wikipedia entry on the subject, which describes how 12am/12pm is actually a common confusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noon_and_midnight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noo... Incidentally, 99.9% is going to be a bad guess for almost any survey answer because of the "lizard people effect" (4% of US adults say that the country is controlled by lizard people, 7% are not sure).
- akvadrako 9y agoDude, yes, more people will believe the Earth is flat than 12am in noon. The first time I worked outside the USA I was also pointed to that wikipedia article, but it in no way reflects reality on the streets.
- croon 9y ago> The style manual of the United States Government Printing Office used 12 a.m. for noon and 12 p.m. for midnight until its 2008 edition, when it reversed these designations.[14][15]