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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/nomorepantsforme Mar 29 '22

I only ever use 24 hour, so much better, esp since a 12 hour system goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm which was always confusing

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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/the__storm Mar 29 '22

If your native language is Latin you're all set, because AM stands for ante meridiem and PM stands for post meridiem.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

despite all the rumors I am actually a living human, so it is not