Is 00:00 hours (midnight) 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM ?

Subject: Is 00:00 hours (midnight) 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM ?

Date: Tue Mar 6 05:03:36 2001
Posted by Leanne
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: Auckland State/Province: No state entered. Country: New Zealand
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 983873016.As

Message:


I have been having an argument about whether midnight (or midday) is AM or PM 
or if logically they cannot be either. I always believed PM switched over to AM 
at midnight, not 12:01. What is the accepted form? This is not a school 
question sorry, I have been unable to find the answer anywhere else despite 
repeated searching.

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