Ok what is this 12mn 12nn madness
I assumed NooN and MidNight
Oh I know what they put them there for. I just find it obscene.
I dunno, people get confused by 12pm often, this feels like a relatively elegant solution.
Solution could be to learn what AM and PM means. Ante meridiem (before midday) and post meridiem (after midday).
Or use 24h time. Then you can omit the midday factor altogether.
Well, the definitions aren’t really all that helpful. 12pm is neither before nor after midday, while 12am is exactly 12 hours before and after midday.
Easy way to think about it is that 12 is actually the 0th hour.
0 AM and 0 PM make more sense.
I wish everyone just used military time.
0:00 to 23:59. Nothing to screw up.
12am…12 hours…after midnight??
Okay if somehow one can’t figure out that night comes after day, then one can hopefully count and know that 12 comes after 1. 1AM is in the middle of the night so 11 hours later, 12AM would be noon. 12AM obviously doesn’t come before 1AM, thus midnight is 12PM, because midnight is when one day rolls over to the next and you get morning (or before midday) again.
Crazy thing is I can’t tell if you explained it incorrectly on purpose to show how confusing it is, or if you did it accidentally.
Except the most widespread definition is the other way around: 12am is midnight and 12pm is noon. As that source argues, 12:01 during the day is clearly after noon, so it must be pm.
In the end my point stands: You can argue both ways and it is confusing.
‘this often confuses people’
‘here’s a solution: learn’
Of course there’s also that other solution. You know, the one the rest of the world uses.
Ew, but it’s foreign!
Suddenly having a base with 12 is good? I bet you split hours into fractions too.
/joke
If you don’t know what nn and mn mean it means nothing.
I can never differ between am and pm, because we don’t use that here - well, at least I always mix it up
mn instead was very intuitive
A test of concentration, clearly you’re not one of us
Translation: 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00, 19:00, 20:00, 21:00, 22:00, 23:00, 0:00
You mean 0:00mn
24:00
Thanks.
First time I’ve ever seen noon and midnight represented as 12nn and 12mn, and I’m kinda down for it.
No
I wish in English we said 19 o’clock out loud, and I’m not ashamed (even though I know it’ll never happen)
To anyone reading this, do you find yourself unable to keep from nodding off in the middle of the day? You might have sleep apnea. If you can see a doctor, you should. I got a cpap and it changed my life. I went from being able to fall asleep anywhere at any time (and having to take a nap on my lunch break), to being truly well-rested every day for the first time in years.
I fell asleep half way through that paragraph
And if you don’t have sleep apnea, you might have narcolepsy. It’s not as dramatic and obvious as is portrayed in movies.
I know it’s a joke, but this led me to get diagnosed with narcolepsy. So, just FYI.
Oh my god you communicate with the spirits of the dead!
I see you slinging jokes around in the comments and I’m here for it. Nice work OP
Just doing my part good sir
Klaatu Varata Niktu
Barada!
Could also just be an insomniac like me. No narcolepsy and I can sleep like a baby, but getting to sleep is like pulling teeth. Life’s responsibilities don’t follow my shitty sleep patterns tho, so I’m constantly not getting enough sleep.
It’s the opposite for me. Usually, I can fall asleep very quickly and easily. But I can’t stay asleep and I don’t feel rested after sleeping.
12nn
First time I’ve seen the distinction 12nn and 12mn for noon and midnight - I like it!
It works, but it’s still a workaround for a thoroughly confusing notation instead of just using 24h time.
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It’s not the counting to 12 that’s confusing, it’s that 12 should really be called 0 if 12:00 noon counts as PM.
It’s really weird that it goes 12:00PM -> 12:59PM… -> 1:00PM… -> 11:59PM… -> 12:00AM
It would make more sense to go 0:00PM -> 0:59PM… -> 1:00PM… -> 11:59PM… -> 0:00AM
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True, but that’s not what the 12h clock does. It starts at 12, then jumps to 1 and counts all the way up to 11, then restarts at 12.
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But then it gets confusing when looking at an analog watch, and one needs to think for a moment whether you have to add or subtract 2 or to just keep the hour the same.
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…but it was the queen removed of WhoTheFuckCares.
Definitely would have made the meme much better.
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