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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". [34] E. G. Richards in his book Mapping Time (1999) provided a diagram in which 12 a.m. means noon and 12 p.m. means midnight. [35]
In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. February 23, 2025) with a comma before and after the year if it is not at the end of a sentence [2] and time in 12-hour notation (4:14 am). International date and time formats typically follow the ISO 8601 format (2025-02-23) for all-numeric dates, [3] write ...
Punctuation and spacing styles differ, even within English-speaking countries (6:30 p.m., 6:30 pm, 6:30 PM, 6.30pm, etc.). [ citation needed ] Most people who live in countries that use one of the clocks dominantly are still able to understand both systems without much confusion; the statements "three o'clock" and "15:00", for example, are ...
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Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
Before the adoption of four standard time zones for the continental United States, many towns and cities set their clocks to noon when the sun passed their local meridian, pre-corrected for the equation of time on the date of observation, to form local mean solar time. Noon occurred at different times but time differences between distant ...
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& that's the main thing people want to know who are confused about whether 12 pm means noon or midnight, not the invented rationales for why there's no answer, when there is a correct answer. If another culture or nation that uses a 24 hour clock uses 12 am to mean noon & the reverse, please go ahead and cite a legitimate source.