>his "country" uses the 24 hour clock instead of am/pm
>>52279530
There is your reply. Good thread.
i want to cum on your throat Original Poster
seems like you feel yourself so alone
there is (you) for you
anime
it's not like it takes advanced mathematics to convert it
can anyone post the picture of the girl who is groping a guy who is standing against a wall
>>52279530
Hey OP, have you hear about the METRIC system?
Even better, we use a 12 hour clock without am/pm.
>>52279530
>"lets meet at 12 m8"
what do ?
>special snowflake american system
>yfw Americans can read neither "military time" nor cursive writing, something Europeans learn in the 1st grade
Here is (you) for (you) because (you) are so special and I think (you) need this (you)
anime is fucking gay
The fuck's the benefit of either system over the other?
Any normal person understands both.
>>52282333
If you're not retarded, you can determine from the context what time you'll be meeting.
>>52283442
RARE FLAG
Need to fap now
>tfw americans are too retarded to understand how the 24hour clock works.
Is it so hard for you retards to remember both?
>>52287831
NEW FAG
>>52287954
ONLY FOR AMERICANS, HON HON HON HON
>Not being fluent in both systems
We say "let's meet at 8" when going out with friends or whatever, and "20:00" in formal written/scientific/... contexts
>>52287897
triggered
Yuri is garbage
>>52279530
>not using both
Are you stupid ?
>>52288087
No
>>52287897
Need help with that? :3
>>52288201
This is disgusting. I am ok with yaoi but yuri oh god
How do you express sub-divisions of the hour in you are language and what's the literal translations?
Here it goes
>8:15/20:15
"Viertel nach acht" - "Quarter past eight"
"Viertel neun" -" Quarter nine"
>8:30/20:30
"Halb neun" - "Half nine"
>8:45/20:45
"Viertel vor neun" - "Quarter before nine"
>>52287831
NEW FAG
>>52288018
>Not being fluent in both systems
If anyone is unable to use both, they must either be an infant, or cognitively impaired. There's absolutely no way anyone without a disability could struggle with this.
Hell, I sometimes use both interchangeably when writing, sometimes even in the same conversation. I don't think there's any country where it's convention to only use a single system.
>>52288409
>quarter past
>quarter 'til
>some will say "noon thirty" "midnight thirty" etc, but never formally and it's kind of being cutesy, like brits saying "crimbo"
>>52283612
am/pm confuses me
am = after morning?
pm = post midnight?
>>52288409
>20:15
Vartia yli kahdeksan = A quarter over eight
>20:30
Puoli yhdeksän = Half nine
>20:45
Varttia vaille yhdeksän = A quarter to nine
>>52288697
Ante Meridiem (before midday), Post Meridiem (after midday). It's Latin.
>>52288697
Ante meridiem (before noon) and post meridiem (after noon)
I don't know why that confuses you though, you don't need to know what they stand for to know that am means morning and pm means afternoon. Most people in a 12 hour system don't know what am and pm stand for but they aren't confused by it because they don't think of it in those terms.
>>52288409
In Afrikaans we'd say
>6:45am/pm
"Kwart voor sewe" - Quarter to seven, but the literal translation is "quarter before seven"
>8:30 am/pm
"Half nege" - Half nine
"Agt-dertig" - Eight-thirty
>7:15am/pm
"Kwart oor sewe" - Quarter past seven, but literally it's "quarter over seven"
>>52288697
It's Latin, ante meridiem (before midday) and post meridiem (after midday).
>>52288817
>>52288824
But seriously, I never quite remember what 12:00 am/pm (or 12:01 am/pm) refers to, midnight (or shortly after) or noon (or shortly after)?
>>52288922
In a day, is 12:00(:01) am before noon?
>>52289055
I just remember there to be irregularities and inconsistencies, logically I'd call (metric 12:01) as (Murrican 12:01pm) and (metric 0:01) as (Murrican 12:01am) based on the "before/after" noon system, but then again one could read "12:01" as "12 hours and 1 minute after a certain event (noon/midnight)" too, which would reverse the whole thing
>>52288922
>>52289055
I'm not entirely sure what you're confused about.
Noon is 12:00 PM, right as morning ends. Noon only lasts 60 seconds, then it's "afternoon."
Midnight is 12:00 AM, the very beginning of a day.
Does that answer your question?
>>52289323
>Noon is 12:00 PM
I guess this is what confuses me, because it literally reads "12 hours after noon", which would make it midnight again, by logic.
>>52289323
Oh, I'm not confused at all.
I was asking him a rhetorical question so he'd think about it himself. I was highlighting the fact that, in a day, a.m will always mean before midday. In a 24 hour clock, a.m is always 00:01 - 11:59, so if you know that he should have been able to figure it out yourself.
>>52289481
Oh and also because it breaks the progression
>9am
>10am
>11am
>12pm
>1pm
>2pm
>...
So the "reset" from am to am happens one hour earlier than the "reset" from 12 to 1
>>52289548
*from am to pm
>>52279530
>his country doesn't even know to count to 24
>>52289481
>>52289548
>>52289658
It's just a technicality, I think, to make it obvious what time you're talking about. Technically 12:00 shouldn't have anything, since it's neither before or after midday, but midday itself. But for clarity's sake, you say 12 pm. Unless you invent a new way of signifying that it's noon, then you'll have to stick with 12. If you don't think about it, it makes sense. If it really bothers you, you CAN say it's 30 minutes past noon, or 0.5pm, but that just confuses things for others.
