2006-06-23 03:47:11 · 50 answers · asked by Richard P 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
aaahhh, now you know why i prefer "marine hours". Noon, i.e. 12:00 on the dot is am, but one second after that is pm. Similarly, midnight is 12:00 pm, but one second after is am. I always find this extremely confusing because rather than thinking of the times as points on a clock, i tend to think more in terms of english grammar, where 12 is the subject, or main noun, if you will, and the minutes after are merely an adjective modifying the noun. In this vein, it is am all the way up to 12:59:59 and switches to pm at 1:00 in the afternoon (and, of course, the reverse at midnight), which, of course, is exactly wrong.
Oh how i dearly wish the whole planet would kick the damnable am/pm habit and adopt marine hours. 12 is just 12, after which comes 13 and so forth until you get to 23:59:59, then you start all over again at 0.
2006-06-24 04:04:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 17⤊ 5⤋
Noon is 12 pm. Cheers
2006-06-23 03:54:25 · answer #2 · answered by Jamie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree 12mn is am,and 12 noon is pm
2006-06-23 03:53:50 · answer #3 · answered by Virginia V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noon is 12 pm and Midnight is 12 am because midnight is the official start of another day so it is morning.
2006-06-23 03:52:59 · answer #4 · answered by baggiesfan89 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 pm
2006-06-23 03:51:22 · answer #5 · answered by Kris S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's 12:00 pm
2006-06-23 03:50:01 · answer #6 · answered by Carla S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
noon is 12 pm
2006-06-23 04:51:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 noon is Pm.
Noon is short for afternoon
2006-06-23 03:51:54 · answer #8 · answered by rockin mermaid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, neither one. am stands for ante (before) meridian, and pm stands for post (after) meridian. Noon IS meridian. But since within a millisecond it's after noon, it's written as 12:00 pm
2006-06-23 04:18:55 · answer #9 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PM. You have already had 12 hours of the day. Now you will begin the twelve hours after noon. I prefer military time.
2006-06-23 10:51:40 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pm because it starts off the afternoon part of the day
Noon is the time halfway through the day, written 12:00 in the 24-hour clock and 12:00 noon in the 12-hour clock
2006-06-23 04:19:30 · answer #11 · answered by cindy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋