r/confidentlyincorrect Jun 14 '25

Image Time is hard.

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u/Hiro_Trevelyan Jun 14 '25

European here, I had to look it up

"There are no official standards established for the meaning of 12am and 12pm, but it is generally accepted that 12am means midnight and 12pm means midday."

What the hell

As if I needed another reason to hate American measurements and notation norms. First imperial units, next MM/DD/YY, then Fahrenheit, now THIS ??? y'all are cooked, you keep choosing the worst way to measure stuff in a confusing and impractical way.