12 am or pm for midnight?
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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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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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The first 12-hour period is designated as am. It runs from midnight to noon. The second period, marked pm, covers the 12 hours from noon to midnight. The abbreviations am and pm derive from Latin: AM = Ante meridiem: Before noon.
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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. Since it is the meridian, it is not technically correct to call it either AM (before the meridian) or PM (after the meridian).
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Noon (or midday) is 12 o'clock in the daytime, as opposed to midnight. It is written as 12 noon, 12 p.m. (for post meridiem) or 12 pm. Solar noon is the time when the Sun appears to contact the local celestial meridian.
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It runs from midnight to noon. The second period, marked pm, covers the 12 hours from noon to midnight. The abbreviations am and pm derive from Latin: AM = Ante meridiem: Before noon.
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Re: Greeting good morning : Anytime after 12:00 AM or Sunrise to 12:00 PM on meeting for the first time. good afternoon : Anytime after 12:00 PM to 04:00 PM on meeting for the first time. good evening : Anytime after 04:00 PM to midnight or 12:00 AM on meeting for the first time.
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The terms late or early or mid apply to all times in the day. So Late Afternoon or evening is correct. Evening starts from 5 pm. But remember that late afternoon is also used to represent early 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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To avoid confusion, it is always better to use the 24-hour clock, so that 12:00 is 12 noon. Therefore 24:00 Sunday or 00:00 Monday are both midnight meaning Sunday to Monday. It is common for transport timetables to use 23:59 Sunday or 00:01 Monday, or 11:59 pm or 12:01 am, to further reduce confusion.
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The new day starts at 12:00:00. New day begins at 12:00AM hence it being AM & is no longer PM.
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['24 Hour. ... ', 'Examples: 12 Midnight = 00:00, 12:35 AM = 00:35. ... ', 'Examples: 11:20 AM = 11:20, 12:30 PM = 12:30. ... ', 'Examples: 4:45 PM = 16:45, 11:50 PM = 23:50. ... ', 'Examples: 00:10 = 12:10 AM, 00:40 = 12:40 AM. ... ', 'Examples: 01:15 = 1:15 AM, 11:25 = 11:25 AM. ... ', 'Examples: 12:10 = 12:10 PM, 12:55 = 12:55 PM.']
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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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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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Re: 12:00 noon/nn/ pm No abbreviation for "noon" since it is a short word already probably; however, you can use 12:00 a.m. or 12:00 midnight (or just "midnight") and 12:00 p.m. or 12:00 noon (or just "noon"). Of course, one can always go with 24 hour military time: 1200 = noon and 2400 = midnight. Bertha.
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There are no standards established for the meaning of 12 a.m. and 12 p.m. It is often said that 12 a.m. Monday is midnight on Monday morning and 12 p.m. is midday. Lunch. Just remember, p.m. means 'after noon' literally. So because lunch is in the afternoon, it's p.m.
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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.