First time I’ve seen the distinction 12nn and 12mn for noon and midnight - I like it!
It works, but it’s still a workaround for a thoroughly confusing notation instead of just using 24h time.
Ok what is this 12mn 12nn madness
I assumed NooN and MidNight
Oh I know what they put them there for. I just find it obscene.
I dunno, people get confused by 12pm often, this feels like a relatively elegant solution.
Solution could be to learn what AM and PM means. Ante meridiem (before midday) and post meridiem (after midday).
Or use 24h time. Then you can omit the midday factor altogether.
Well, the definitions aren’t really all that helpful. 12pm is neither before nor after midday, while 12am is exactly 12 hours before and after midday.
Okay if somehow one can’t figure out that night comes after day, then one can hopefully count and know that 12 comes after 1. 1AM is in the middle of the night so 11 hours later, 12AM would be noon. 12AM obviously doesn’t come before 1AM, thus midnight is 12PM, because midnight is when one day rolls over to the next and you get morning (or before midday) again.
Except the most widespread definition is the other way around: 12am is midnight and 12pm is noon. As that source argues, 12:01 during the day is clearly after noon, so it must be pm.
In the end my point stands: You can argue both ways and it is confusing.
