Why is 12 p.m. 'in the middle of the daylight' while 12 a.m. is 'in the middle of the night'?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
December 21, 2020 7:19am CST
Especially because 12 p.m. is right after 11:59 A.M. (and 12 a.m. right after 11:59 P.M.)
Especially in America, where you're "Zero years old" for the first year of your life (unless you think of 'how many MONTHS old'). Military-time calls 12 a.m. "zero-hundred hours," but why doesn't STANDARD time do "Zero o'clock" (at least in the morning), and just eliminate the 12?
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@lovebuglena (44504)
• Staten Island, New York
26 Dec 20
I never thought of 12 am as being in the middle of the night. Maybe because I usually go to sleep way after 12 am. 
Now if we eliminate the 12 and do "Zero o'clock" do we write it as 0 am?
Now if we eliminate the 12 and do "Zero o'clock" do we write it as 0 am?@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
31 Dec 20
That's how the military does it, with every hour after 12 p.m. being 'x + 12'-hundred hours (1 pm = 13:00, 2 pm = 14:00, etc)
@lovebuglena (44504)
• Staten Island, New York
31 Dec 20
@mythociate I know that. But if we went by AM and PM, instead of military time, but decided to replace 12 with 0 when it was midnight would we say it's 0 AM? Or would it just be 0?
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1 Jan 21
@lovebuglena Yes, both ... kinda like 'how you're a teenager whether you're thirteen or nineteen or anywhere in between' (or some better example of 'time at the end of a period having a different name as the time at the beginning of a period, even though they're exactly the same time' ... a starting-line on a circle-track that's also the finish-line?)
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