Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day

• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Right, but then how do you refer to before 5am on the 5th?
  That’s not morning, and it’s not the night of the 4th. It’s awkward.

  But more importantly, it’s ugly. It’s not how we intuit about days. It’s unsatisfying.

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  • CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve heard people say “the wee hours of the night” to refer to time between midnight and dawn.

    I think one of the reasons that there’s not a good word for that in English is because it’s the time anyone is least likely to be awake, so there’s not much reason to talk about it. And then by the time humans built enough lights to do something worthwhile at 02:00, we also had clocks and started to describe that period in reference to clock readings.

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    5 am is the morning. This isn’t negotiable. You’re wrong.

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      00:01 isn’t the morning. This isn’t negotiable. You’re wrong.

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      • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I think you’re perhaps like… Misunderstood here.

        A.M. doesn’t meant “morning”.

        It means “ante meridian” which is Latin for “before noon”.

        It’s not up for debate. You’re very thoroughly wrong.

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