On Jul 7, 8:08 pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
Smitty Two wrote:

Sorry, 12:00 p.m. *is* noon.

Only if you define twelve hours after the sun is at its highest point to be
noon.

Because more than 1 person is disputing whether 12:00 PM is noon, I
decided to do some looking.

TvGuide.com uses it.
So does DHL, a major delivery compay. They have a service called ""DHL
Next Day 12:00pm"
Fedex uses it too (search Google: "12:00 pm" site:fedex.com )
Then there's the loads of radio and TV stations that use it
(schedules).
Here's one: The TV series "24" - where each episode covers one hour.
http://www.aetv.com/24/24_episode_gu...episode=111985

Better idea. Who on Google uses "12:00 PM noon" as opposed to "12:00
AM noon?" -The searches below also match with "p.m." and "(noon)",
the search is for a string, not words anywhere in a document.
"12:00 PM noon" matches "about 195,000" documents on Google
"12:00PM noon" matches "about 32,700"
"12:00 AM noon" matches about 436
"12:00AM noon" matches about 49
So:
Total documents using "12:00pm noon" or "12:00 pm noon" = 227,700 /
228,185 = 99.8%
Total documents using "12:00am noon" or "12:00 am noon" = 485 /
228,185 = 0.2%

So (roughly) 2 people in 1000 think that 12:00am means noon. (The
margin of error with this is not significant enough to matter.)

That should settle this, but of course it won't...

Ever watch a digital watch change from 11:59:59 AM to 12:00:00 PM?

Or how about this - what is 3-2? Of course it is 1. What I mean is
that at 12:00:00PM half the day has already, at that instant, passed,
and it is now the beginning of the second half of the day.

I could care less what some guy says on some government website. If we
lived in a universe where time could move backwards, then that
discussion
would make more sense.