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Re:Ask HN: What does 12:00 AM mean? by prmoustache on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:38AM (#30801396)
We do but 12 is noon for us, otherwise past 11:59 in the evening it goes back to 0.
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Re:Ask HN: What does 12:00 AM mean? by moralestapia on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:46AM (#30801482)
Do your analog clocks have all numbers from 0-23 in them?
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Re:Ask HN: What does 12:00 AM mean? by prmoustache on Friday March 25, 2022 @09:05AM (#30801647)
No only a small number exists but most are still 12h analog clock.

Anyway that is not really the problem, we just learn from being kids that 12 is only valid for noon otherwise it is implicitely 0 as the next one is 1 anyway. And, at least in my country, we rarely say 12 as we use our words to say midnight/noon.

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