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Another mystery is why AM/PM time periods start with 12 instead of 0. Minutes and seconds are zero indexed, why not hours? I suspect it may have to do with how
by adolph 4y ago
Another mystery is why AM/PM time periods start with 12 instead of 0. Minutes and seconds are zero indexed, why not hours? I suspect it may have to do with how clocks have a 12 at the tope, despite 12 effectively being a thirteenth hour.
- bombcar 4y agoYeah, "normal" people don't count from zero unless forced to.
- adolph 4y agoThey also don't count from 12 playing the role of zero (outside of AM/PM time).
- bombcar 4y agoDegrees and other circle-like things often interchange 0 and 360 depending on what "feels right" at the time. The way clocks are built the first number is "hours since midnight/noon" depending on if it before or after 1 AM/PM heh.
- flohofwoe 4y ago"Denormal" people (e.g. coders) usually don't count from zero either, but when measuring distances or offsets, starting at zero makes sense (even in the real world, for instance a ruler starts at zero, and that's obvious also to "normal" people). Anyway, where was I ...