{"id":7223,"date":"2019-07-02T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T05:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/7219\/"},"modified":"2019-07-02T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T05:58:39","slug":"7219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/7219\/","title":{"rendered":"a.m. &#038; p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7220&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;left-to-right&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Both a.m. and p.m., two Latin abbreviations for time indication, are known to be confusing. The former, shortened from \u2018<em>ante meridiem<\/em>,\u2019 starts from midnight to before midday. Meanwhile, the latter, \u2018<em>post meridiem<\/em>,\u2019 starts from midday to before midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u2018meridiem\u2019 is usually misspelled as \u2018meridian,\u2019 which comes from \u2018meridian line.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, what is not less perplexing is the way we choose which of them to use in indicating the points of time around midnight and midday.<\/p>\n<p>In short, from midnight to 0:59 o\u2019clock, it\u2019s 12:00 a.m. to 12:59 a.m. This time period is the most confusing.<\/p>\n<p>From 1:00 o\u2019clock to 11:59 o\u2019clock, it\u2019s 1:00 a.m. to 11:59 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, from noon\/midday to 12:59 o\u2019clock, it\u2019s 12:00 p.m. to 12:59 p.m. This time period is also confusing.<\/p>\n<p>From 13:00 o\u2019clock to 23.59 o\u2019clock, it\u2019s 1:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there are different ways to write each of the abbreviations.<\/p>\n<p>The first and most common way is written in lowercase with two periods following: \u2018a.m.\u2019 and \u2018p.m.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The next way is to use capital letters with a smaller font size, with or without periods: \u2018A.M.\u2019 and \u2018P.M.\u2019, and \u2018AM\u2019 and \u2018PM.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Not only Thais get confused with this issue. Among native speakers, there have been many campaigns calling for the cancellation of both abbreviations.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both a.m. and p.m., two Latin abbreviations for time indication, are known to be confusing. The former, shortened from \u2018ante meridiem,\u2019 starts from midnight to before midday. Meanwhile, the latter, \u2018post meridiem,\u2019 starts from midday to before midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":7221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7229,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/7229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}