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Well, some of them sound more convincing than the others. Intuitively, "12:30 AM" (whose meaning is unambiguous) seems to have more affinity to 12:00 than 11:30
by Koshkin 5y ago
Well, some of them sound more convincing than the others. Intuitively, "12:30 AM" (whose meaning is unambiguous) seems to have more affinity to 12:00 than 11:30 PM does.
But since the midnight is the same distance from the noon, before (AM) or after (PM), in theory both should be reserved for midnights (the past one and the future one), and noon, too, should be both AM and PM - at 0 hours.
The only real solution for this mess is the one that everyone uses: just burn the meaning of 12:00 AM as midnight into your brain, and those who fail to do so are in for a trouble.
- seba_dos1 5y agoThere's a much better solution used by a huge chunk of the world already - the 24 hour system, which avoids these pitfalls completely. "Burning the meaning into your brain" is just destined to fail when you use the 12 hour system rarely enough, like a lot of people do.