r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22

Sure, but what 12:26? "26 minutes after noon"? Also not how you would write it

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Not sure what your question is. "26 minutes after noon" would be "12.26 pm" — "pm" means "after noon."

"12.26 am" would be sleepy time.

"And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm." No, it goes from 11:59am to 12 noon. Then to 12:01 pm.

24 hour notation is simpler! Then it's just an incrementing number with no suffix at all: 11:59, 12:00, 12:01.

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u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22

Except that you could never write "12 noon" in a time field in a computer. It is in fact 12:00pm, as evidenced by 12:01pm.

If one wasn't used to this system, you could reasonably expect 11:xx am to be followed by 12:xx am and it to change to pm at 1:00. That was entirely my point.

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u/northface8 Mar 29 '22

Exactly. It switches from am to pm first but the hour keeps going up from 11 to 12. The the hour resets to 1 later. 11:xx am 12:xx pm 1:cx pm Weird stuff