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bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  12:30 AM is 00:30 though?

  They shouldn’t even have 12 on the clock, it should be 0 because the 12 hour clock is module 12.

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  • MasterNerd@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Case and point as to why it’s confusing lmao

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “case in point” although "case and point " is arguably an eggcorn

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      • MasterNerd@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Damn, just learned I’ve been using that phrase wrong my whole life

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  • stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He did say it always fucks him up :D

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• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  12:30PM means 30 minutes after 12-noon.

  People saying that and meaning the middle of the night are just wrong, and if that’s a genuine thing it would drive me quite mad.

  30 minutes after midnight is 12:30AM

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Perfectly illustrates how it doesn’t make sense.

    I can get behind

    • 11.30pm
    • 12.30pm
    • 1.30am

    Or

    • 11.30pm
    • 0.30am
    • 1.30am

    But

    • 11.30pm
    • 12.30am
    • 1.30am

    just doesn’t make sense.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You start counting the hours io the next noon at midnight, duh

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    • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did you mix up the first and third place? Because if 12:00 is “m”, it makes more sense for 12:30am to be night.

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As I said, it always fucks me up. The AM/PM indicator wraps at a different hour than the hours. Aaargh!

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• GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Literally this. I was never in the military, and I’m glad they literally can’t draft me unless they lower a lot of requirements really fast. But 24-hour time is just so much more sensible. There’s no “AM or PM?” follow-up question, no guesswork. It just makes sense.

  If they made metric time, I’d adopt that shit in a heartbeat.

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  • arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the standard time that almost everyone uses is metric, i.e. is part of the metric system, its units are SI units. there was a system of decimal time, if that’s what you mean, developed in France during the revolution, where a day is 10 hours, each 100 minutes, each 100 seconds

    so a decimal hour is 2.4 standard hours
    a decimal minute is 1.44 standard minutes
    a decimal second is 0.864 standard seconds

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think it’s cheating to call it metric if it’s not decimal. Even some of the oldest analog clocks had 24-hour faces, they were just a bitch to read in a watch-size.

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    • testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      metric-time.com

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This teaches you the value of terms like “half past noon“ and “half past midnight“

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Europe they say “point five past noon” and “point two five to midnight”

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    • virku@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Norwegian here. I don’t recognize this. Where in europe do they say it like that? We mostly use the 12 hour system to talk about time of day, but write in 24 hours. We don’t say am or pm though.

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is this a joke no one is getting or something?

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      • homes@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        is that what German humor is like?

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    • homes@piefed.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      that seems overly complicated

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Closes at 25:00” is funny too

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But luckily unambiguous.

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  12:30 pm is half-past noon.

  12:30 am is half past midnight, or as you would say 00:30

  The m is “meridian” which is noon (sun straight up)

  The a is ante/before and the p is post/after

  In olden days it was easier to look up and set your clock at noon than midnight.

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  • feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    By the definition of post meridian, though, half past noon should be 0:30 pm.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We use the 12 at both ends because there it is sitting at the top of the clock

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• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It doesn’t mean that.

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