is it 12 am or pm at noon?
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language states "By convention, 12 AM denotes midnight and 12 PM denotes noon. Because of the potential for confusion, it is advisable to use 12 noon and 12 midnight." E. G.
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12.30 pm simply after noon. 12.30 am is simply after middle of the night. ... The abbreviation 'am' stands for 'ante meridiem', that's a Latin time period that means 'earlier than midday', at the same time as 'pm' stands for 'put up meridiem' that means 'after midday'.
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Here is the traditional rule: it is 5 o'clock in the afternoon. actually, technically, anything up to and including 5:59 pm is afternoon, 6pm begins evening.
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If you are trying to say "it is midnight": Es medianoche. If you are trying to say "It is 12:00": Son las doce.
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From the Latin words meridies (midday), ante (before) and post (after), the term ante meridiem (a.m.) means before midday and post meridiem (p.m.) means after midday. ... The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language states "By convention, 12 AM denotes midnight and 12 PM denotes noon.
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Since noon is neither before nor after noon, and midnight could be considered the end of one day or the start of the next, neither label fits. However, it's a very common interpretation that 12:00AM means midnight (00:00 in 24-hour notation) and 12:00PM means noon (12:00 in 24-hour notation).
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Technically, it is correct only to call it 12:00 noon. Summarizing what others have written, the half-way point of the day, known as the meridian, is 12 o'clock noon.
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['Lowercase a.m. and p.m. and always use periods.', 'Lowercase noon and midnight.', 'Do not use 12 noon or 12 midnight (redundant). Use noon or midnight.', 'Do not use 12 p.m. or 12 a.m. Use noon or midnight.', 'Do not use 8 a.m. in the morning (redundant) Use 8 a.m.', "Do not use o'clock with a.m. or p.m."]
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There are no standards established for the meaning of 12am and 12pm. It is often said that 12am Monday is midnight on Monday morning and 12pm is midday.
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Another convention sometimes used is that, since 12 noon is by definition neither ante meridiem (before noon) nor post meridiem (after noon), then 12am refers to midnight at the start of the specified day (00:00) and 12pm to midnight at the end of that day (24:00).
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Re: 12 am = midnight or noon? Midnight is 12:00 pm. It is also 00:00 am. This is because it represents both the beginning and the ending of a set of numbers that runs from 00:00 to 12:00.
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12 a.m. here refers to the start of the day (or before midday- ante meridiem), but at 12 p.m. (after midday- post meridiem) it would be the end. ... 12 am and pm is when they switch. When 12am hits, it is morning time.
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There is no exact definition of the time when afternoon ends and evening starts. (This is equally true for "evening" and "night".) However afternoon is often taken to start directly after noon (12:00 pm). Afternoon ends and evening starts at roughly 6 pm or maybe just before sunset.
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Noon is midday or 12:00pm sharp. Anything beyond 12:00 pm until roughly around 5:00-5:30pm is afternoon.
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AS IS clear from consideration of the literal meanings of am and pm, noon is 12m, while 12am and 12pm have equal claims on midnight.
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Originally Answered: Why do we call 12 p.m. noon? The term 'noon' comes from the Old English 'non', which in turn is derived from the Latin 'nona hora' -ninth hour. Originally it referred to the ninth hour after sunrise - that is, 3pm. During the twelfth century, the meaning began to shift from 3pm to midday.
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There is no such time as 12 am, because 'am' stands for the Latin 'ante meridiem', which means 'before mid-day'. Twelve hours 'before mid-day' can only mean midnight. ... A new day starts at 00:00, or as we commonly call it, 'midnight'.