- Use of “12 m. ” for noon and “12 p. m. ” for midnight
@EdwinAshworth “When most people say 12pm, typically they're talking about the middle of the day” note that this is precisely what confuses continental europeans about the AM PM system the most, e g we use morning afternoon as indicators when using 12-hour times, so 12 “afternoon” is midnight, not midday
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That is, at the precise stroke of 12:00:00 That time, along with 12:00:00 noon, are technically neither AM or PM because AM and PM mean "ante-meridiem" and "post-meridiem", and noon and midnight are neither ante- nor post- meridiem However, for convenience, most people lump the 12:00:00 time with its nearest neighbour, 12:00:01, which IS AM
- Midnight, noon 12am, 12pm? | WordReference Forums
In the 12-hour clock, midnight is simply 12 00 midnight, and midday is simply 12 00 noon Of course, in the 24-hour clock any confusion is avoided by using 00 00 and 12 00 I am very intereted to know if my understanding is correct, as I have been using this format for some time!
- 12am 12pm - Which is noon? which is midnight? - WordReference Forums
Using "12:00 pm" for noon is only a convention, based on simple clocks, I agree A distinction had to be made, between noon and midnight, for simple clocks, so they used "am" for midnight, and "pm" for noon Language then followed the clock convention
- Midnight, noon 12am, 12pm? | WordReference Forums
Therefore 12 PM, 12 after midday in other words, is necessarily midnight So 12 AM is midday, then, right? Wrong, 12 AM, "12 before midday", is a contradiction in terms, as midday cannot be before itself, so 12 AM should not exist at all, in fact Edit Jana, I hadn't seen your post as I was still plodding along with mine
- Is it correct to say 12:00am? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Since 12:00 noon is neither before nor after midday (it IS midday) it cannot be AM or PM As for 12:00 midnight it could refer to AM (12 hours before the upcoming noon) or PM (12 hours after the preceding noon) Thus to avoid any confusion you should always use "noon" "midnight", 11:59 12:01 or rely on the 24-hour clock designation
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Noon is 12 PM and midnight is 12 AM in actual usage This usage was once confined to technical language--the oldest use of P M for noon which I have found so far was in an 1835 book on meteorology --but the digital clock has brought it into everyday use
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There is no such thing as 12 a m or 12 p m ; use midnight and noon MIT’s ComDor Editorial Style Guide’s section on “Date and time terminology” reads: Noon and midnight Do not use 12 a m or 12 p m , as they are ambiguous Instead, 12 noon or 12 midnight or, better yet, simply noon or midnight More from our friends at Greenwich:
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