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There are so many things that we assume are unambiguous that aren't. Like, my favourite argument starter is asking if 12 AM is midnight or midday.
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24 hour clock all day every day
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If someone asked me that, I would say that i don't care, because I use the 24 hour clock.
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Fair. I actually get actively mad when stuff puts me on a 12-hour clock.
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We're living in 2025, civilization is globalized, most of the world has easy access to electricity and can work even during night. We don't need two separate 12-hour cycles to separate daytime and nighttime for
<insert your local area>
. Let's move on and use a proper time format.And a personal pet peeve, please never call it "military time" - that illogical and ugly bastardization of ISO8601.
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Ah yes, ISO8601. Just rolls of the tongue, doesn't it?
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I mean, the more common name is "24-hour clock", ISO8601 is the standard defining it. Just like it (finally?) has become commonplace to just say "WiFi 6" instead of saying " IEEE 802.11ax".
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I was just kidding. I know that no one uses that in common conversation, but it'd be funny of everyone went around saying the standard by its identifier.
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12am is midnight. Maybe not everyone knows it but it is defined.
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There is actually a correct answer here, which is that 12:00 AM is midnight. It's really stupid because we should just call it 0 AM, but I think it's because they didn't really have the concept of zero as a number back when this stuff was decided, and we've carried this stupid legacy system with us since then
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I actually have no idea. Which is it?
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It's disputed, that's why it's a good argument question. Most style guides say it's midnight or recommend staying away from it. Just use a 24-hour clock.
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It's midnight, because noon is 12PM.
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Which makes no sense either, by the way. "PM" means "post meridiem", literally "after noon". It's not twelve hours after noon at noon.
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That logic doesn't make sense if you do am as well though, since 4 am (ante meridian, before midday) is not 4 hours before midday.
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Which further demonstrates that the am/pm system is completely imbecilic
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