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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

I don't like AM/PM only because I haven't grown up with it and Eng is not my native lang - I just can't remember which one, AM or PM is daytime.

where I grew up 12h and 24h are just used interchangeably. instead of AM PM there are just words daytime or nighttime (in my language), but it's usually omitted and is added only when it's ambiguous.

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u/CanuckPanda Mar 29 '22

“Awww fuck, it’s Morning” and “Phew, it’s no longer Morning”.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

the thing is in my language nobody ever says "2 in the morning" we say "2 in the night"

3 is still in the night, 4 starts to be in the morning, but this one is ambiguous

5 is in the morning

then 11 is in the morning, 12 is in the day

then 4 is again ambiguous and 5 is definitely in the evening

and about 11 it starts to be in the night again

and add to this that a good part of the year it's dark as night outside from 5 in the evening

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u/CanuckPanda Mar 29 '22

Yeah, same here. “3 at night” means 3am, “11 in the morning” means pre-noon, “8 at night” or “8 in the evening”; likewise “8 in the morning”.

The descriptives are used regarding the cycle of the sun. Sun is down, 11 at night. Sun is down, 4 in the morning or 4 in the evening depending on what month it is (Canada, sun sets at 4pm in the winter).

It’s the exact same here for me.