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Thursday, August 9, 2018

And here is another thing that bothers me. Is Noon 12 am or 12 pm?

And here is another thing that bothers me.  Is Noon 12 am or 12 pm?

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Numbers occur in series so if it is 9am then the hour in that series is 10 am.  So 11am follows to 12 am and that is the end of the series?

But is 12:30 then not 12:30 am?  No we know that is pm so that 12 noon also has to be pm.

And part of this is because we want that work day split directly in half for lunch and we don't want it to drag on.  So that is the best way to think of it as being the way it is.  It is 12pm.

We also think of the wee hours of the morning when it is 10 after 12 as being 12:10 am.  As in what sob just woke me up.

So there it is and that is the reason why.

Why is it that I have to explain things to other people over and over again so that I can only temporarily remember them until I explain the reasons again?  If you had a gaggle of hormonal females being mentored by a lesbian taunting your human thoughts you would understand.  Don't expect you to.

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