so it would be 0 at the very top

Yeah that’s exactly what I meant too, with replacing the 12 with a 0. Then as the clock swept past the top it would be 11:58, 11:59, 0:00, 0:01, etc.

It’s also funny that we’re talking about the “top” of an old analog clock, because with the digital clocks we all use on our devices now using 12 instead of 0 makes even LESS sense!

I believe the military-style time I mentioned is also 0-based 24 hours like you suggested. They leave out the extra punctuation and go from 0000 to 2359 iirc.

But the goofy 12 clock is probably here to stay for a long time just because people are used to it. I live in the US and am a native English speaker, so I’m used to special exceptions and unique measurement units. 😆

And I just noticed: pretty great username + post combo with this one!