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> majority of people to understand. Depends where / with who you work? Most of my colleagues have to think the same way about am / pm and often get it wrong wh
by tluyben2 8y ago
> majority of people to understand.
Depends where / with who you work? Most of my colleagues have to think the same way about am / pm and often get it wrong when it's 12:00 am/pm.
The 'it's more logical' for me does apply there; in the 24:00 you cannot get 12:00 or 00:00 wrong no matter how you think about it. It feels intuitive in every way.
12 hour clocks made sense when clocks had 12 hours on them; then you had to somehow indicate which block of 12 hours; that problem was fixed before I (and probably you) were born though.
- 1_player 8y agoI grew up with 24-hour clocks, and I always get confused by the 12h version of midday and midnight. Literally, the mnemonic I use to remember which is which is "it's the one that doesn't make sense". So 11am then 12pm And 11pm then 12am (Whereas I would expect the 12th hour of the morning to follow the 11th of the morning, but it's actually the other way around)