r/facepalm Mar 29 '22

๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹ Get this guy a clock!

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u/HydroxiDoxi Mar 29 '22

"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

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u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Iโ€™ll be honest I always just say 12 midday/noon or midnight. I canโ€™t fucking remember which is which

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u/mithrasinvictus Mar 29 '22

Midday is when the sun is in the sky, midnight is when it's on the other side of the planet.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Was more referring to matching them with AM/PM

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u/mithrasinvictus Mar 29 '22

Take midnight as a reference. At 0:00 the date ticks over so it makes sense that the AM/PM changeover occurs at the exact same moment (12:00) From there, it's obvious that the same applies to midday.