Re: Do you think 12:00pm is noon or midnight?

* (Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:02:25 -0700)
When you hear 12:00pm, do you first think of noon, or midnight?

I was surprised some people think it means * when I'd assume anyone
meant * if they said 12:00pm.

* = noon/midnight

Coming from a different language background this whole am/pm thing
looks quite artificial to me. In this language people say "twelve
o'clock noon" when they refer to 12:00 and "twelve o'clock night" when
they refer to 00:00.

Also "twelve o'clock before noon" and "twelve o'clock after noon" are
sometimes used. These mean exactly the same as "twelve o'clock noon".
So in this language 12am is exactly the same as 12pm.

Thorsten
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