5 am is the morning. This isn’t negotiable. You’re wrong.
Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 days agoRight, 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.
foggy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
00:01 isn’t the morning. This isn’t negotiable. You’re wrong.
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.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
The definition of “AM” didn’t factor into anything I said, though.
You said “5am is morning”, but i said “before 5am” as in the entire time from midnight to 5am. I reminded you that “before 5am includes 00:01” which very much isn’t what people would consider to be morning.
This is a silly post about timekeeping, I’m not sure why you’re being rude about it.
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.