AM and PM are two abbreviations that just about everyone uses without giving them a second thought.<\/p>\n
You have heard them your whole life, you know that AM belongs to the morning and PM takes over from the afternoon onwards, and that has always been enough to get by.<\/p>\n
But knowing how to use it and knowing what it actually means are two very different ideas, and most people have never stopped to think about where these letters came from or what they are short for.<\/p>\n
That is exactly what we are getting into today, along with a closer look at how the 12-hour and 24-hour clocks differ and why the world has not quite agreed on which one to use.<\/p>\n
Vamos nos aprofundar no assunto.<\/p>\n
Principais conclus\u00f5es<\/strong><\/p>\n AM comes from Ante Meridiem, which is a Latin word that means before midday, representing all the hours of the day between midnight and when it becomes noon.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n PM stands for Post Meridiem, and is used to represent all the hours of the day between 12 noon and midnight.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n AM\/PM are used in the standard clock worldwide for day-to-day activities. Meanwhile, specialized sectors, such as the Military, healthcare, international transportation, businesses, and aviation use the 24-hour clock, known as the military clock.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n AM refers to every hour from midnight up until the last minute before noon.<\/p>\n This is to say it\u2019s used for the earlier portion of most people\u2019s lives, from the hours in the morning when the world is still dark and mostly asleep to the point when the sun is rising to its peak.<\/p>\n And even though the vast majority of us have no realistic understanding of midnight as morning, this doesn\u2019t change the fact that AM is ticking away and continues until PM begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AM and PM are two abbreviations that just about everyone uses without giving them a second thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":28053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-helpful-ai-content-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22179"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29168,"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179\/revisions\/29168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undetectable.ai/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nAM Meaning: The Morning Hours<\/h2>\n