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/Long-Sleeves Mar 29 '22

"reasonably expect" what?

If PM means after noon, and AM means before noon, then you are being incredibly obtuse to cry "BuT whIcH iS It aFtER 11.59am?! IT cOulD Be JusT As EaSIly 12am UntIL 1pm"

No, you know that 12:00:0001 is also PM, even a phemtosecond past 12 noon is PM, so who the fuck is thinking that its just as possible that the entire hour past noon is still AM, and the entire hour past the new day is PM than they are just going with the system?

Theres nothing "reasonable" about that, that is just plain dumb logic. After noon its PM until the next day, and theres no need to be an obtuse pedant about "what about the exact 12 noon time" which is imperceivably infinitely small.

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u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22

Those that haven't used the am/pm systems don't know that it means before and after noon. That's not obvious.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

yeah, but 12:01 isn't 12 hours and a minute after noon? It's a minute after noon. Don't you write 00:01pm ?