Post #1578797
2026-04-13 21:39 UTC
New fustration: there is no fucking standard is 12:00 pm is midnight or afternoon... I get that with the 24:00 clock midnight can be 0:00 or 24:00 but that is still clear its midnight. My washing machine's delayed start is working im 12h clock and it happened multiple times that i set it to start at midnight due to this clusterfuck and i am fustrated beyond myself. Can we kill am/pm?
Replies (3)
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@t3rminus@calamity.world 2026-04-13 22:12
@tretron@bark.lgbt uh… I’ve always known 12:00pm to be noon, and 12:00am to be midnight.
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@Kishi@meow.social 2026-04-13 22:19
@tretron@bark.lgbt It's dumb, yeah... reasons why I use 24H clocks everywhere. Also you can do math (much easier) with 24h clocks. And lexical ordering falls out naturally. And it's easier to translate between timezones. And, and, and.... the list goes on, right? If your brain will allow it, 12:01 PM or 11:59 AM is entirely unambiguous and still starts at roughly the same time.
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@Dofain@mastodon.social 2026-04-14 05:30
@tretron@bark.lgbt it's like someone failed math gravely and said "yeah 12 is definitely before 1"