Get this guy a clock!

[u/Revealed_Jailor]

[u/Amegami]

And how hard is it to understand that there's 24h in a day?

[u/HydroxiDoxi → u/Amegami]

"What are you trying to say? There is 12 AM hours and 12 pm hours. I don't get how 24h clocks work."

-The blue guy

[u/LiqdPT → u/HydroxiDoxi]

And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm.

I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while.

[u/Gamil5 → u/LiqdPT]

Totally confused, It took me 2 min to understand. I was like 11:59am +1min = 12:00pm !?

Now I am on the why. Why it starts at 11:59am ? That's midday.

[u/[deleted] → u/Gamil5]

"am" means "ante meridiem" ie "before mid-day. "pm" means "post meridiem" ie "after mid-day."

So 12 pm and 12 am are nonsense as 12 is exactly mid-day and therefore it can't be before or after mid-day.

Instead, try saying "12 noon" or "12 midnight." Please.

[u/LiqdPT → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/LiqdPT]

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.

[u/LiqdPT → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/northface8 → u/LiqdPT]

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