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It starts at , which would mean that would be 12am and then would be 12pm. It depends how you classify a day, if it runs from until then 12am is noon and 12pm is midnight. If it runs from until then 12am is midnight and 12pm is noon, but surely we all agree is not a time?
Think how many computer operations could take place unnoticed in that no-man's land of a whole second second! Just make sure you specify the appropriate day. Midnight and midday are neither am or pm as explained in the GMT link he provided.
As 'x' approaches zero it never actually gets there just as it reciprocal never reaches infinity. Gary Reid, Wollongong Australia Midnight is neither 12pm or 12am, there is no such time. Midnight is 12 midnight and mid-day is 12 noon. All other usage is sloppy.
As one reply says the armed forces use and George Redgrave, Crawley United Kingdom The disagreement about midnight stems from the fact that it is a boundary between two days. There is no reason to prefere one over the other except a desite for standardisation. Following this, it is obvious that this same moment in time can also be called 12pm Monday because it is 12 hours after the Monday meridian or 12am Tuesday because it is 12 hours before the Tuesday meridian.
The very fact that both of these positions can be defended is reason to never use either. Similarly, noon is the meridian and is therefor neither am nor pm. We only call it 12 o'clock because of the number on the dial. There is no logical reason why this number cannot be replaced with a zero. It is simply noon. Since we do not notate time backwards, 12 midnight is not 12 am, since it would then require 1 am to become 11 am and so on.
Similarly since it is the fleeting instant that marks both the end of one day and the beginning of the next it belongs to both days and to neither ,it is not 12 pm. In reality midnight has no sooner been reached than it has been passed. The phrase "the stroke of midnight" is apt. As has been demonstrated by many of the previous answers, and because it is incorrect, the use of 12 am and 12 pm is inherently confusing.
To avoid this confusion it should be ended. The use of noon and midnight informally or 12 noon and 12 midnight or and should become practice. Bernard Maguire, Glasgow Scotland I have had fun reading all these answers. However, I have always held the fact that 12pm is noon.
Example: Counting in minutes, you would have am, am, am, am etc. Therefore it stands to reason you would have: am, am, pm, pm. It would just be odd to have: am, am, am, pm John Wood, Sheffield, England Use 12 midday or 12 midnight for clarity. It is easy to call others morons. We need to realize that a clock gives us a means of reading time. Time is a fluid, always changing value. It is never what the clock says it is. Noon and midnight are for a infinitely small period of time as is any number on the clock represents.
An example is the only clock that is correct is the one that is stopped. It gives the correct time twice a day. A running clock is always wrong. By the time we look at a clock that tells us it is noon, it is past noon and the same at midnight. So where does that leave us? When the time reaches noon, it is PM. When the time reaches midnight, it is AM. An analogue clock does not confuse, because our brain knows what it is telling us. The digital world we live in is trying to precise and yet it is not.
To try to represent time in a digital way, we must realize that noon and midnight are only words. Our digital clocks should not say AM or PM. This follows the 24 hour clock convention split into am and pm and means midnight is always the end of a day. Both digital and analogue timepieces indicate precisely that convention, any time between the 12 and 1 on the timepiece is less than 1 approaching 1.
We say 12 at midday or midnight as a continuation of the sequence from 1 up to 11, and 12 comes after Hence, if we refer to the mornings and say 1 am to 11 am, then 12 must follow as 12 am midday ; and, if we refer to the afternoons and nights and say 1 pm to 11 pm, then 12 must follow as 12 pm midnight. Think of it as simple counting. Thank you for all your comments. It is indeed a complicated question. Midnight on Sunday is during the night between Sunday and Monday, as Joe says.
With the hour clock, we start again from after For example after we do have ; ….. Same way after noon i. What do you think Mr. I agree with others who reason that 12 AM is midnight, as AM is one minute past midnight. Just as AM is one second past midnight.
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