12 pm is what time of day?
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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."
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There are 24 hours in a day. The day is divided in half - 12 hours for AM and 12 hours for PM, hence we have 12 midnight and 12 noon. ... There are 24 hours in a day.
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It is often said that 12am Monday is midnight on Monday morning and 12pm is midday. ... It can also be argued that by the time you have seen a clock showing 12:00 at midday it is already post meridiem, and similarly at midnight it is already ante meridiem.
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One refers to the clock and one refers to the sky. The set of words that refers to the clock is: midnight (exactly 12:00 am), morning (from 12:01 am to 11:59 am), noon (exactly 12:00 pm), afternoon (from 12:01 pm to 6:00 pm), evening (from 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm).
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Converting from 24 hour to 12 hour clock 0:30 = 12:30 AM. 0:55 = 12:55 AM.
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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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It depends how you classify a day, if it runs from 00:00:01 until 24:00:00 then 12am is noon and 12pm is midnight.
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Sunday: 12:00 am (Midnight) to 7:00 pm. Monday: 12:00 am (Midnight) to 6:00 am. Tuesday: 3:30 am to 6:00 am. Wednesday: 3:30 am to 6:00 am.
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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 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'.
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Full form of AM and PM, AM PM Meaning An example: 10.00 a.m. is 10 o-clock in the morning. With a 24 hour time this is 10:00. PM stands in short for Post Meridiem, de latin name for “After Midday” or “After Noon”. An example: 10.00 p.m. is 10 o-clock in the evening.
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The day is divided into two periods: a.m. (from Latin ante meridiem, meaning, before midday) and p.m. (from Latin post meridiem, meaning, past midday). 12:30 a.m. is in the first period which begins at midnight (technically 12:00 a.m.) and the 12:30 p.m. is just after noon (which technically is 12 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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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language states "By convention, 12 AM denotes midnight and 12 PM denotes noon.
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E. G. Richards in his book Mapping Time provided a diagram in which 12 a.m. means noon and 12 p.m. means midnight. ... For an example of the latter method, "midnight" is replaced with "11:59 p.m." for the end of a day or "12:01 a.m." for the start of a day.
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Midnight – and noon – aren't defined as a.m. or p.m. You can talk about 12:01 a.m., and you can talk about 12:01 p.m., but 12 o'clock a.m. and 12 o'clock p.m. mean different things to different people. ... In that system, tonight's midnight is the first moment of tomorrow.
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So 11:00 am is 1 hour before noon, and 3:00 pm is 3 hours after noon, making 4 hours in all between them. It is much better and leads to less confusion to use a 24 hour clock, where 11:00 am is 11:00 and 3:00 pm is 15:00, making the difference of 4 hours much more obvious.