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Subject: Re: 12-hour clock

Jason Linhart (24p/+0r) Posted: Wednesday 13 Dec 2000
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On 12/13/00 1:03 PM Stephen Turner (sret1@cam.ac.uk) wrote:

>Maybe some kind American can help me with this 12-hour-clock localisation: > >1) 1am or 1AM? We would always use lower case, but I think Americans >generally prefer upper case, right?

I've always seen it written uppercase, and with a space, so 1 AM.

>2) Midnight is 12am, not 12pm, right? (I find this very confusing. "Midnight >Wednesday" is always the time at the end of Wednesday. So that's 12am >Wednesday, or 12am Thursday, or what??)

On Tuesday night just after 11:59 PM it becomes Wednesday at 12:00 AM. 1 AM, 2 AM, etc. follow. Noon, the middle of the day, is 12 PM, which is followed by 1 PM, 2 PM, etc. The more you think about it, the less sense it makes.

Jason

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