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2006-11-28 00:46:52 · 28 answers · asked by ? 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Other - Alternative
pm, as 12am is midnight.
As the day is understood to start from midnight (hence the celebration of the New Year is on the stroke of midnight), 12 midnight is am (as in morning).
2006-11-28 00:48:35 · answer #1 · answered by k² 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hate to be picky - but if you work night shift 52 weeks, less holidays, a year, "lunch" could be 12 in the dark! But you're right in assuming most people have "lunchtime" between 12/Noon + 1pm and even those of us used to working in that time and eating 1-2pm or even 2-3pm, like one other responder, know what you mean.
I'd have to agree with Duncan T that it is better just called "Noon", not 12PM.
But 'PM' means "Post Meridian" (= "After the middle of the day"), your respondent Nikki's got confused with the North Pole to South Pole line running through Greenwich, England) which is used for maps - "Prime Meridian" - and the world-accepted 24-hour clock which (technically) still starts from the same line. "Greenwich Mean Time" - which is the "Zulu" you hear in miiltary movies ("The attack will begin on all fronts at 0600 Zulu") - is still the norm. (The time clock, I believe, is now in Paris - and nuclear-based. The decay of some atom/isotope.)
But I see my ISP calls it 12pm. I switched on again this morning/afternoon changeover and that's what it came up as when the opening finished dead on 12/Noon - NZ time, 12 hours ahead of Greenwich. When I first switch on, however, it works from 'Midnight', and opens as 12am. When it 'realises' what the actual time is, after linking to Internet, it changes to AM, if before 'noon' or PM, if after.
Part of problem is from the days when we got the 24 hour clock. Both Greeks and Romans didn't have '0' in their arithmetic, so there is no '0' second between '11:59:60' + 12:00:01. '11:59:60' would mean 11 hours, 59 minutes and 60 seconds - or 12 hours. The '0 Second'/Noon would have solved the problem. It would have been "Middday", with exactly 12 hours each side of it.
(What an extra 365 + 1/4 '0' seconds per year would have meant for Leap Years, I won't dream of commenting on!)
Traditionally, if you were, for instance, "limiting" your teenager you would say, "Be home by 12pm" (my parents always made it earlier!). But when describing a time for a shift of work, or something, you would say, "From 12am till 7:30am".
We don't normally use either 'AM' or 'PM' in conversation when discussing lunch- but I think if you said you had 'lunch' at 12am, most people WOULD assume you were on a night shift - or having a very interesting party!!
'Midnight' shifts from whether you're approaching it - the 'be home' one - or leaving/working from it - 12am-7:30am. "Noon" will always be a problem.
2006-11-30 18:35:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We get our time keeping system from the babalonians who separated the day into 2 12hour cycles 1 for light hours and another for dark hours. 12 am is the standard time for the begining of the day also known as midnight it would be awlful silly to have lunch at that late hour; however, not everybody keeps the same hours so perhaps at least one person would have lunch at 12 am. But for most people 12 pm is the norm for lunch time.
2006-11-30 15:58:36 · answer #3 · answered by ikeman32 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not cvonsider 12:00 as being am or pm. The time12:00 is a division point between am and pm. Therefore, there is 12:00 noon dividing am from pm and 12:00 midnite separating pm from am. Great question!
2006-11-28 01:11:05 · answer #4 · answered by Eds 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lunchtime is your midday meal. If you happen to wake up at 11:30am then lunch is whatever your second meal is. Unless you are English or of some other culture that calls dinner lunch in which case that would be your 3rd meal and it really doesn't matter what time of day you eat it because it depends on you schedule.
2006-11-28 00:59:16 · answer #5 · answered by Kbrand5 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what planet are you from? lunchtime is 12pm, midnight is 12am because 12 am midnight is the middle of the night and 12pm lunchtime is also known as midday as it is the middle of the day, a baby could have figured that one out.
2006-11-30 08:51:29 · answer #6 · answered by tribalgirlie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither, it is 12 noon. AM stands for anti meridian or before noon, and PM stands for post meridian, or after noon (Past Morning to make it easier to remember) so 12 on the dot is just noon. the same applies to midnight. There is no AM or PM then either
2006-11-28 00:52:49 · answer #7 · answered by Dunk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's 12 O' clock pm
2006-11-28 03:08:36 · answer #8 · answered by Cynthia B 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is 12pm Lunchtime
2017-01-13 05:49:04 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so."
- Ford Prefect
Lunctime is 12 pm.
Midnight is 12 am.
2006-12-01 17:37:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋