Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night
biofaust@lemmy.world 3 days agoYou could just as well say the opposite.
Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night
biofaust@lemmy.world 3 days agoYou could just as well say the opposite.
Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub 3 days ago
Why?
biofaust@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Everything before midday is AM, etc. etc.
Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub 3 days ago
Yeah. Which is what I said. 11:59:59.9999999 is indeed AM. And then comes a tiny sliver of time that is precisely at the border, but a trillionth of a picosecond after that, you’re in the PM world. After the infinitely short moment that is the actual precise noon.
biofaust@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sorry, I answered without giving enough thought. You are right in your reasoning of course.
Still, I find it confusing to have 2 completely different moments of the day represented by the same number.
In phrases like “After 12 PM on Monday”, “Before 12 AM” etc. I always need to think an extra second.
Another example is setting automatic responder on the mail, where I need to rely on 11:59, because the date is selected before the time of day.