Noon/midnight

[2sp_]

Has anyone else noticed the popularity of the terms 12am and 12pm, instead of using Noon and Midnight?

Really irritates me.

Just thought I would share...

[EcclesCake]

I'm with you on that, drives me potty!

[2sp_]

Thank god it's not just me on another ridiculous rant! (Don't get me started on the phrase "one pence"!)

Do folk not realise what am and pm mean?

[aelmpvw]

12am 12pm? i don't which is noon and which is midnight

[2sp_]

I know aelmpvw! The terms don't make sense so how are you supposed to know what they mean!


aaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhhhh!

[aelmpvw]

i don't know :-)

[2sp_]

For instance, I was expecting my new washing machine to be delivered today between "8am and 12am"...

[ummmm]

It's easy. 12am is day time and 12pm is night time.

I can't say I've actually noticed though.

[mccfluff]

maybe not so easy, to me 12am is midnight and 12pm is noon.....

[paddywak]

To avoid mistakes the chief engineer at one pit I worked at insisted all written reports were timed using the 24 hour clock,I became that use to it I still use it even after twenty years.

[mccfluff]

i use the 245 hr clock paddy, i just find it easier

[vulcan42]

there's no confusion with a 24 hr clock.
http://www.npl.co.uk/reference/faqs/is-midnight-12-a.m.-or-12-p.m.-(faq-time)

[queenofmean]

12pm is midday as the pm is past midday that's how I was taught in school and 12 am is midnight because you have 11pm and then 12am 1am etc

[2sp_]

My point is how can 00.00 or 12.00 be anti or post when one of them is the "m"?

[Clanad]

Pedantically, the terms AM and PM actually mean Ante (not anti) Meridiem and Post Meridiem... or as one poster has stated, before and after mid-day (noon). One source states it's a Latin phrase, of course, and "It's a dissimulation of "medius + dies" where" "Medius" is an adjective put in the locative case meaning ".

Noon or mid-day is further defined as the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course... (see what you've started 2sp?)

[jno]

I work on fluff time, not ummmm time. I think that's the problem, it's not universally agreed which is which, but as more and more deliveries etc are done through computers, and computers don't know about noon and midnight, people have to use the figures.

[ummmm]

I once took my daughter to the airport for her 8pm flight. Arrived to a empty airport. Her flight was 08:00. I asked her to check her ticket several times.... Shocking!!!

[RATTER15]

I just find it easier to use 24 hour clock, no confusion then.

[Clanad]

Being in aviation, I'd agree wholeheartedly with RATTER15... problem is the use of the 24 hour clock is, I think, a lot more accepted in Britain and Europe than it is here in the U.S. Normally only used by the military and airlines here and not understood by the general populace...