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by mark-r 3089 days ago
I'm not disagreeing that "noon" or "midnight" are less confusing, I'm simply saying there shouldn't be any ambiguity about 12AM or 12PM in the first place.

Any potential for confusion results from an ancient decision to designate noon/midnight as 12:00. If they had simply made them 1:00 instead then there'd be no trouble today.