The 12:00 notation is US-centric. Or, perhaps, common in Anglophone countries. The rest of the world does not use the AM/PM conventions and calls midnight 00:00.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

For me, it is the fraction of the day that passed or distance from midnight and in any case fundamentally some kind of number expressed in a Babylonian base-60 notation.

Yes, and that number is conventionally written as
"12:00", which is *obviously* equal to zero... er,
what?

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