As an American who uses the 24-hour time, so many people use 12-hour I basically still use 12-hour.

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[–] 6 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

If you see a working clock say 12:00 and it's sunny outside and you're not above a certain latitude: it's noon

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    What if someone tells you something is gonna happen at 12?

    For example: you can turn in your assignments until 12 tomorrow.

    That confusion could lead to you failing your assignment if they meant noon and you thought midnight.

    Time is not only for the present, it's for the past and future too. You can't look at the sky in the past/future.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    What if somebody says to meet at 12:30 AM? I would think that's an half hour past noon. Yet it often goes 11am -> 12pm -> 12:30pm -> 1pm. Absolute madness.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Well since it goes like this 11:59am, noon 12:01pm and 11:59pm, midnight, 12:01am you have your am and pm figuring wrong.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I agree with you up to the :30 part. 12:00am vs pm is nonsensical and seems like it could go either way.

    But AM/PM means before noon/after noon, so 12:30 AM is unambiguously before the current day's noon, and 12:30 PM is definitely after the day's noon.

    For determining 12:00AM VS PM I use the law of lease surprise. Basically it would be weirder for 12:01AM to be proceeded by 12:00PM since it would make sense for AM/PM to flip with the hour. Is this scientifically rigorous? Should we need this much philosophy to determine the current time: no, Hence the only real solution is to 24 hour time

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