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Old 10-27-2015, 02:57 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
As an American I'm used to 12AM being midnight and 12PM being noon, but logically it would make more sense if 12AM followed 11AM and 12PM followed 11PM.
Would it then logically follow that military time should be calculated from 0100 to 2459?

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They had a reason, you know.
Where would we be if the first hour of the day was the last hour of the PMs?

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Also it's the same 12 hour clock the whole world uses.
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