12am or 12pm?

[antijoke]

So I was talking today with a colleague about SLA levels for response times for a customer who has out of hours support until 12pm Saturday.

This opened a can of worms all over the office with some debate about the time I had said the customer has support for:

Some say 12pm is mid-day, whilst others say 12am is mid-day, so OcUK, if I was to ask you what 12 pm is, what would you say?

Mid-day or mid-night?

Maybe a kind mod would make a poll?

 

[Dunks]

Erm, 12pm is midday, there's no other way about it.

12pm = midday
12am = midnight

Jeesh!

 

[Hastarius]

12pm Midday
12am Midnight

 

[Skully]

Neither exist.

 

[mehuk]

12pm is mid day

00:00 ie 12 at night, is am

imo.

 

[bledd]

Erm, 12pm is midday, there's no other way about it.

12pm = midday
12am = midnight

Jeesh!

This

 

[Steeps]

12pm is mid day. 12am is midnight.

 

[Moothead2]

12PM = Sunny
12AM = Dark

Simples ...unless you're in a country where you get midnight sun.

 

[Pestilence]

There are no ifs and buts about it.

12pm is midday.
12am is midnight.

Which exactly did you argue, OP?

 

[Guerrilla]

12pm = Mid-day/Noon.

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

24 hour clock and then there are no arguments but as others have said 12am is midnight and there is no two ways about that.

 

[Azza]

What? How is there any argument here, is your office really a nursery full of infants?

 

[Frenzy]

ante meridiem (a.m., English: "before midday") and post meridiem (p.m., English: "after midday")

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_Meridiem

I think of it like this, what is 12:01 am closer to?

 

[mjt]

What? How is there any argument here, is your office really a nursery full of infants?

+1

Seriously.

 

[Cosimo]

This is schoolboy stuff, we've just had pm.

 

[Basher]

+1

Seriously.

12 noon.

 

[Pestilence]

12pm = Noon.

High Noon, in fact. Pardner.

 

[antijoke]

The vast majority of people did in fact think like I did, but a couple of "trolls" thought otherwise.

Wikipedia further fuelled their debate on the subject.

 

[Castiel]

So I was talking today with a colleague about SLA levels for response times for a customer who has out of hours support until 12pm Saturday.

This opened a can of worms all over the office with some debate about the time I had said the customer has support for:

Some say 12pm is mid-day, whilst others say 12am is mid-day, so OcUK, if I was to ask you what 12 pm is, what would you say?

Mid-day or mid-night?

Maybe a kind mod would make a poll?

You don't need a poll as the answer is categorically 12am is midnight and 12pm is midday.

Anything else is simply wrong.

 

[bledd]

or pancake