We recently bought a used Suzuki vehicle. The clock reads 0:00 for midnight and we can’t find a setting to change it. Is this standard in some country, to show midnight as zero versus 12? It isn’t giving military time - it still reads the usual afternoon times such a 1:00 for 1pm and so on. It also still reads 12 for noon. Just the midnight hour is wacky. It threw us for a loop the first time we were in the car during the midnight hour - we thought it was displaying the CD track time or something, but realized quickly that it wasn’t changing properly. I am 90% sure the stereo is stock and not an aftermarket. Any ideas?
So it goes 11:59, 0:00, 0:01, … 0:59, 1:00?
Yup, exactly.
Most countries beside the US and Canada use a 24-hour clock, so I’d assume someone at Suzuki (or one of their suppliers) just had a poor understanding of how the 12-hour clock works when they designed the radio.
0:00 is midnight in the 24-hour clock. Obviously they got the afternoon hours right, but screwed up midnight.
It is standard in every country except two (US and Canada). Right now my clock reads 00:59.
I think this might be a new fad; I was just in the small electronics department of a large chain store the other day, and noticed that almost all the digital alarm clocks read 0:00 instead of the usual 12:00.
Yup. Every digital clock I’ve seen anywhere in Europe (except one) - whether set to 24 hours or 12 hours - showed 0:00 on midnight. I guess most of them were produced in China anyway, so maybe “chinese standard” is becoming popular in US nowadays.
Then wouldn’t they all show Beijing Standard Time?
Add Australia to that list. 24-hour time exists, but I wouldn’t yet call it “standard”
Wait a second… Is it really “standard” for US and Canadian (and possibly Australian) clocks to show hours like: 11:58pm, 11:59pm, 12:00pm, 0:01am etc.? I assumed from OP it is.
Clocks I’ve seen in Europe set to 12-hour time usually were like 11:59pm, 0:00am, 0:01am etc. That might be side effect from 24-hour time that usually shows midnight as 0:00 anyway. So dual-purpose clocks that might be set to either 12 or 24-hour time probably would show midnight as 0:00 - just like clock in OP did.
That’s just totally incorrect.
Pretty much every digital clock and watch I’ve ever seen shows 12:00AM for midnight when set to 12hr time, and 12:00PM for noon. When set to 24hr time they show 0:00 and 12:00 respectviely.
I have never encountered ANY that show 0:00 when in 12hr mode.
No puppygod, what the OP is describing is that we (in the US) never see “0” as an hour digit if the clock is a 12-hr time clock. 11:59, 12:00, 12:01, whether am or pm. If a clock supports 24-hour time, (like my Grundig shortwave) you see 0:00 for midnight, 12:00 for noon, and 23:59 for 1 minute before midnight.
No.
11:58 p.m., 11:59 p.m., 12:00 a.m., 12:01 a.m., …
There are no “0:xx” times on our clocks.
12 a.m. is midnight. 12 p.m. is noon.