• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    12:30PM means 30 minutes after 12-noon.

    Anyone saying that and meaning the middle of the night is just wrong, and if that’s a genuine thing people do it would drive me quite mad.

    30 minutes after midnight is 12:30AM

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      7 hours ago

      Perfectly illustrates how it doesn’t make sense.

      I can get behind

      • 11.30pm
      • 12.30pm
      • 1.30am

      Or

      • 11.30pm
      • 0.30am
      • 1.30am

      But

      • 11.30pm
      • 12.30am
      • 1.30am

      just doesn’t make sense.

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        5 hours ago

        You start counting the hours to the next noon at midnight, duh. That’s why it’s ante-meridian, and the beginning of a new day. If you want to go around calling it 00:30, most people would understand, even in America.

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        6 hours ago

        Did you mix up the first and third place? Because if 12:00 is “m”, it makes more sense for 12:30am to be night.

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      7 hours ago

      As I said, it always fucks me up. The AM/PM indicator wraps at a different hour than the hours. Aaargh!