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::Japanese time is high IQ! Not only does it do XX:XX to 24:00 like much of the world instead of XX:XX to 0:00 or 00:00 it also does things like this bar's open 16:00 to 28:00 or "trains run till 25:00". Mechanical clocks once had only hour hands and had to have their drift fixed every day with a glance at a sundial, it took a long time for people to stop thinking in Roman numerals and "this is the first hour" instead of "it's 12:27". If all civilizations had 0 clocks would probably not illogically have a 1 at the top instead of 0. Also am and pm mean ante and post meridian, they CAN'T change at 1:00. After the noon meridian not midnight cause the Sun's midnight meridian crossing is invisible unless midnight is in the day. [[User:Sagittarian Milky Way|Sagittarian Milky Way]] ([[User talk:Sagittarian Milky Way|talk]]) 16:15, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

:Time is measured continuously: it's now 8 hours plus 32 minutes plus 7 seconds past midnight and this is only the case for a single moment. Days are counted discretely: it's now the 22nd day of the 10th month of the 2024th year since the epoch and this is the case for the entire day. That's why time starts at 0 and dates at 1. It's also why time is in [[big endian]] order and date in little endian in most European languages. [[User:PiusImpavidus|PiusImpavidus]] ([[User talk:PiusImpavidus|talk]]) 08:32, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

 

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