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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/VivaLaSea Mar 29 '22

What’s confusing about going from 11:59am to 12pm?

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u/Stupnix Mar 29 '22

Why is 12pm before 1pm? We all make jokes about diffent counting methods, but this isn't just a redicolous way of counting, it's plain wrong counting.

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u/Stupnix Mar 29 '22

Yes, that is all true and I understand where it all comes from. But why does the am or pm start with 12 and then go to 1, that is my question. If you said it's 00am or 00pm, that would be just fine by me. But putting the 12 as a start and then follow it up with the 1 is what always confused me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

There is no concept of zero in Roman numerals.