Comment on Can't remember the last time I wasn't tired
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 2 years agoOh I know what they put them there for. I just find it obscene.
Comment on Can't remember the last time I wasn't tired
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 2 years agoOh I know what they put them there for. I just find it obscene.
Tagger@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I dunno, people get confused by 12pm often, this feels like a relatively elegant solution.
dojan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Solution could be to learn what AM and PM means. Ante meridiem (before midday) and post meridiem (after midday).
Or use 24h time. Then you can omit the midday factor altogether.
ahto@feddit.de 2 years ago
Well, the definitions aren’t really all that helpful. 12pm is neither before nor after midday, while 12am is exactly 12 hours before and after midday.
LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Easy way to think about it is that 12 is actually the 0th hour.
0 AM and 0 PM make more sense.
I wish everyone just used military time.
0:00 to 23:59. Nothing to screw up.
dojan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Okay if somehow one can’t figure out that night comes after day, then one can hopefully count and know that 12 comes after 1. 1AM is in the middle of the night so 11 hours later, 12AM would be noon. 12AM obviously doesn’t come before 1AM, thus midnight is 12PM, because midnight is when one day rolls over to the next and you get morning (or before midday) again.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 2 years ago
12am…12 hours…after midnight??
ProtoShark@lemm.ee 2 years ago
‘this often confuses people’
‘here’s a solution: learn’
zerofk@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Of course there’s also that other solution. You know, the one the rest of the world uses.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Suddenly having a base with 12 is good? I bet you split hours into fractions too.
/joke
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Ew, but it’s foreign!
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 2 years ago
If you don’t know what nn and mn mean it means nothing.
naeap@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
I can never differ between am and pm, because we don’t use that here - well, at least I always mix it up
mn instead was very intuitive