@jpmens It's not military time, it's regular time. At least to me it is. Also, you don't have to say fourteen-hundred hours. What's wrong with fourteen o'clock? It rolls off the tounge just as easily.
12 pm = twelve o'clock
12 am = zero o'clock or nought o'clock if you wish
@fell@jpmens I was curious about this recently and concluded the 12hr clock & timekeeping was "standardized" by sundials (for obvious reasons). Later, with the advent of mechanical timepieces, it was economical to save space on clocks and watches and monumentally easier than attempting to change the entire world.
Much like the US refusing to switch to metric because "It would be too hard!"
@cesarb@jpmens N is for “noon” – that’s also what you would say: “twelve noon,” so it’s fairly obvious to a local. In older timetables you also find the word “noon” printed rather than numbers.
I haven’t found a midnight departure or arrival in the Amtrak timetable, no idea what they would use for the “Midnight train to Georgia.”
@jpmens I help a charity publish their events online and on a weekly basis I have to remind them to never end online events (auctions etc) at e.g. "midnight on Sunday" because NO ONE¹ KNOWS IF THAT IS THE SECOND AFTER 23:59:59 SATURDAY OR THE SECOND AFTER 23:59:59 SUNDAY.
¹ I know which one is correct, but some people that we want to donate us money also think they know, and explaining why they are actually wrong is counter-productive
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