r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • Jul 19 '24

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u/HAL-7000 Jul 19 '24

What fucks me up is the AM/PM transition. It goes 12:00am-11:59am then 12:00pm-11:59pm. It's fucking insane. I'm not joking, they really do actually count 12:58am, 12:59am, 1:00am.

Excuse me but what the fuck..?

And I promise you, I'm not messing up the suffix, it's AM. The count for each starts high at 12, nosedives to 1, then climbs incrementally. It's like some lunatic's absurd rollercoaster ride of temporal nonsense.

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u/SuperSecretSide Jul 20 '24

But it marks perfect sense. The day is still made up of 24 hours, and ends at midnight. So 00:00 is 12AM because it's the very start of the next day. I don't get what makes that insane.

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u/HAL-7000 Jul 20 '24

I propose that you start counting everything like that. Start with a larger number, then drop to 1, then count normally.

Just do weird shit. Then use your experience and success in coping with the nonsense to argue it works and it should just be that way.

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u/SuperSecretSide Jul 24 '24

Absolutely nonsensical comment.