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Jeff,
When I get confused as to when 12:00pm and 12:00am occur, I use the
following trick to remind me.
What I do is remember the two following things:
1) The 12th hour does NOT follow the 11th hour, it is more like hour zero
but labeled 12. That it, it does not go 9am, 10am, 11am, then 12am but
rather from 11am to 12pm. Likewise it goes from 11pm to 12am.
2) I think of "am" as meaning "all morning" or "after midnight" because I
never remember the real Latin words. :) To my twisted thinking, once you
hit midnight you have now started the morning, so not only is 1am through
11am part of the morning but so is 12am. Thus 12:30am is after midnight,
not after noon, and thus 12:00am has to be midnight and 12:00pm has to be
noon.
But I agree it IS very confusing, because one would think that 12am should
follow 11am. So my other method is to just use the opposite one of what I
think it should be. :)
Doug
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