• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    6 hours ago

    12:30PM means 30 minutes after 12-noon.

    Anyone saying that and meaning the middle of the night is just wrong, and if that’s a genuine thing people do it would drive me quite mad.

    30 minutes after midnight is 12:30AM

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
      16·
      6 hours ago

      Perfectly illustrates how it doesn’t make sense.

      I can get behind

      • 11.30pm
      • 12.30pm
      • 1.30am

      Or

      • 11.30pm
      • 0.30am
      • 1.30am

      But

      • 11.30pm
      • 12.30am
      • 1.30am

      just doesn’t make sense.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        4 hours ago

        You start counting the hours to the next noon at midnight, duh. That’s why it’s ante-meridian, and the beginning of a new day. If you want to go around calling it 00:30, most people would understand, even in America.

      • Aqarius@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Did you mix up the first and third place? Because if 12:00 is “m”, it makes more sense for 12:30am to be night.

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      19·
      6 hours ago

      As I said, it always fucks me up. The AM/PM indicator wraps at a different hour than the hours. Aaargh!