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Why 12:01AM and not 12:00AM?

iamthekiller said:
Oh. My. God.

I really hope you guys are kidding about thinking the day doesn't start until 12:01. That has got to be the dumbest god damn thing I've heard in a very long time. I hate to use the word "retarded" in a derogatory fashion, but that is honestly a retarded statement.
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People really do think that.
 
If it were 12:00AM Sep 12th, some people would think it midnight between 12th-13th. 12:01 AM Sep 12th is clearly the midnight between 11th and 12th.
 
nikhsub1 said:
Because Friday doesn't start until 12:01am. Did you also know that the first year of each century has a one at the end of it? 2001 was the first year of the 21st century, 2000 was the last year of the 19th.
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People who went around saying this a lot didn't get invited to many millennium parties (either year.) ;)

But yes, you're right about the century thing. No idea if that's true about the day thing.
 
So tense people whiling away the time until orders start have something to talk about...?

Seriously, I don't get the big deal. Most places do orders and stuff at :01.
 
Because lots of people don't have common sense enough to know the difference between 12 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Adding the minute makes it clear to these types.
 
CashDude said:
Because lots of people don't have common sense enough to know the difference between 12 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Adding the minute makes it clear to these types of people.
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Yet there will still be people tomorrow at 12:01 PM checking Apple's site only to see them sold out.
 
iPhone7ate9 said:
That's ridiculous. Are you saying friday has a missing minute? The first year of a century starts with 0, everyone knows that. It's not like earth isn't 6 billion years old and the year 2014 isn't arbitrary.

When the clock hits 3:00 is it still 2 something? No it's 3.
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It's not missing the minute, because the minute you lose at the beginning of the day is gained back at the end of the day.

I do agree that 12:00 should be the start of a new day.
 
This thread is the welcome very loud laugh I need after reading all the angst on this forum today. Bravo!
 
HXGuyAZ said:
That doesn't exactly make any sense.

The day goes from 12:00am to 11:59:59pm, at 12:00am the next day starts. I think that's pretty universally accepted...I mean look at the day/time on your phone/computer etc...when it goes from 11:59pm to 12:00am, the day changes to the next day.
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Actually there is no 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM, although there is a 12:00:01 AM and 12:00:01 PM.
 
TommyA6 said:
There is no such thing as year "0".

1-100 1st
101-200 2nd

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1901-2000 20th
2001-2100 21st
2101-2200 22nd
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Eh, it depends how you choose to think about it. It's a philosophical thing rather than mathematical.

You can choose to designate the first of a series as zero, and the hundredth as 99. It's still one hundred digits. So you can say year 0-99 is a set of one hundred years, and year 100-199, remembering you chose to include year 100 as a year in this set, as another set of hundred years, and so on.
 
CashDude said:
Because lots of people don't have common sense enough to know the difference between 12 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Adding the minute makes it clear to these types.
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Actually, 12:00 doesn't have an AM or a PM. It's noon or midnight. To affix an AM or PM, you have to use 12:01 (or 11:59).
 
Really?
 

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So people aren't confused to whether it's the midnight at the morning or evening end of the September 19th.
 
CashDude said:
Because lots of people don't have common sense enough to know the difference between 12 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Adding the minute makes it clear to these types.
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This is exactly the reason. People (some in this thread) are too stupid to know that exactly midnight 12:00:00AM starts the new day.
 
alphaod said:
So people aren't confused to whether it's the midnight at the morning or evening end of the September 19th.
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This shouldn't be something anyone worries about. If people don't know this by now they should probably just...well....
 
terraphantm said:
That seems arbitrary. I don't see why 12:00 AM is less valid than 12:01 AM

Really, we should use 24 hour time. The AM/PM system is nonsense.
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And when you convert 12:00:00 to military time it's 00:00:00 right? And the start of the new day?
 
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