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[-] Rehwyn@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

12:00AM is midnight because AM is morning, and it's the beginning of the morning.

Using 12-hour time is just a historical artifact from all our analog clocks having 12 hours on their face and not wanting to have to add 12 to the number on the clock for half the day.

[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

12:00AM is midnight because AM is morning, and it's the beginning of the morning.

That doesn’t make it less confusing, it’s the beginnng of the morning but uses the highest available number.

[-] Akareth@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Where I'm from, 12:00 a.m. (00:00) is the middle of the night (we call it midnight here), and morning begins when the sun rises (and we say "good morning" during our mornings).

[-] Rehwyn@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Put more specifically, A.M. and P.M. are abbreviations for "ante meridiem" and "post meridiem", which are Latin for "before mid-day" and "after mid-day" respectively. Since a new day begins at midnight, it follows that midnight is 12:00 A.M. since it's the 12 o'clock that is before mid-day.

[-] misophist@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, it makes perfect sense to count our hours as such:

12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

/s

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