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If 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!
by comicjk 9y ago
If 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]