If only this was true, but for some reason midnight is 12 am. And noon is 12 pm (I’m aware that the reason is that 12:00:00.00001 is in the second half of the day. I just think it should be called 0 pm).
Midnight is 00:00 is 12am. They accounted for 12pm, but need to subtract 12 if it’s 12am.
So, you’d do away with 12 entirely and make AM/PM 0-based: 00:00am - 11:59am, and then 00:00pm - 11:59pm? Makes sense if you’re a programmer, but 0 is a fairly recent invention, and most daily measuring concepts are fundamentally 1-based. Heck, we couldn’t even get all programming languages to agree on 0-based array indexing (looking at you, MATLAB, and you, bash).
If only this was true, but for some reason midnight is 12 am. And noon is 12 pm (I’m aware that the reason is that 12:00:00.00001 is in the second half of the day. I just think it should be called 0 pm).
Midnight is 00:00 is 12am. They accounted for 12pm, but need to subtract 12 if it’s 12am.
So, you’d do away with 12 entirely and make AM/PM 0-based: 00:00am - 11:59am, and then 00:00pm - 11:59pm? Makes sense if you’re a programmer, but 0 is a fairly recent invention, and most daily measuring concepts are fundamentally 1-based. Heck, we couldn’t even get all programming languages to agree on 0-based array indexing (looking at you, MATLAB, and you, bash).