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		aidenn0 on Jan 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So you want to abolish time zones Yeah 24 hour system makes a lot more sense. My favorite to confuse people not familiar with the 12 hour system is to ask them how many hours there are between 11pm and 12pm.

serverhorror on Jan 20, 2015 [–]

Hmmm... there is no 12pm? There's 11:59pm and then comes 00:00 (which I'm not sure wether it is AM or PM)?

Is that somewhat correct?

aidenn0 on Jan 20, 2015 | [–]

It goes 11:59pm then 12:00am 12:01am ... 12:59am ... 1:00am ... 11:59am 12:00pm so there are 13 hours from 11pm to 12 pm.

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