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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by ginko on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:57AM (#38150744)
Which is very confusing. Why does 12pm follow 11am and 12am follow 11pm?
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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by crabmusket on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:23AM (#38150913)
Maybe because 12:00 being consistent with 12:01 was more important than it being consistent with 11?

I personally enjoy using 24-hour clocks on all devices I can.

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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by Digit-Al on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:18AM (#38151309)
Speaking of 24 hour clocks: my oven clock shows midnight as 24:00, and then changes to 00:01 at 1 minute past midnight. I've never seen any other clock show that; very strange.
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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by pasc1878 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:44AM (#38151552)
I thought that was normal at least when writing or saying things.

Use of either mechanical displays or on computers time selecter widgets does mean that 24 is not shown anywhere,

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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h... by Jenk on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:13AM (#38204012)
Because that's how the numbers are arranged on the clock face/sun dial
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