
What time is that in the yellow highlighted area, you say? 12 p.m.? As in, 12 post meridian? How can 12 be post meridian when 12 is the meridian?
I understand that computers can't deal with the reality that noon and midnight are not part of a mechanistic construction of time, and using the 24-hour clock that underlies how time is managed by computers makes it all obsolete. 24-hour time is much more logical, after all.
But this example was written by a person who thinks that 12:00 p.m. is the same as 12:00 noon. My sense is that noon as p.m. is the more common way to assign the meridians, rather than having 12:00 p.m. signifying midnight.
Who decided that 12:00 p.m. was noon instead of midnight? It doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe it's a glass half-full/empty, optimist/pessimist test.
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