We only get one minute of noon a day?

Question

I always wonder to myself everyday around noon, if 11:59 AM is the morning cuz it's still not 12 yet, but 12:01 PM is the AFTERnoon...sooooo...we only get 1 minute of noon? then how many hours of morning do we get and how many hours of the rest of the day do we get? I've talked about this and had LONG conversations with my friends about this, and i still can't just seem to work this out....

Answer 1

Trying to decipher the infinitesimal (infinitely small)

has occupied some of the greatest minds in history:

Newton, Leibniz, the ancient Greeks, and so on.

It truly is something which boggles the mind.

Any particular time has no duration at all.  

Each one is an "instant in time".

Any time measurement we do is approximate.

Electronics can measure time down to billionths

of a second (nanoseconds) or perhaps even

smaller intervals, but then, theoretically speaking,

those can be divided again and again and again

without limit.

So it is 11:59:59.999999999 to whatever degree

time can be measured, then it is 12:00.0 for "an instant",

and immediately after that is PM - post meridiem, after noon.

12:00.000000000...00001

Mathematically there is "before noon", and "after noon",

and noon itself is merely the boundary between them.

There are 12 hours between midnight and noon - the morning.

6 hours between noon and 6 PM - the afternoon.

6 hours between 6 PM and midnight - the evening.

If you like, you can divide the day differently, "night" instead of "evening", and associate morning with sunrise or something,

but in any case, the dividing points have no duration.

Don't think about this too much - it just makes your brain hurt.

Just accept it and move on.

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Answer 2

We only get a split of second of noon a day.

Morning:  from sunrise till noon.

Afternoon: from noon to sunset.

Day time:  sunrise till sunset.

Night time; sunset till setrise.

Answer 3

Every real interval of time is in fact one real point on an infinite line. To put into words, the time that is exactly noon is 1/∞, which simplifies to 0. So, the chance that you stop a stopwatch right at 12:00 is infinitely small, or 0%.

How in the world do you get one minute of noon? 12:01 isn't noon, neither is 12:00:01. Are you forgetting about seconds/nanoseconds/microseconds etc.?

There are 12 hours in the morning, and 12 in the afternoon.

Answer 4

that's kind of confusing ...lol