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the clock and the AM/PM system makes much more sense when you count from 0.
0am 1am 2am 3am ... 11am
0pm 1pm 2pm 3pm ... 11pm
instead of:
12am 1am 2am 3am ... 11am
12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm ... 11pm
the ancient people that invented the clock were programmers all along??
It's probably that way because the system of time predates the invention of zero as a concept by a millennia or two.
Everyone here assumes that midnight=12a.m. is valid everywhere but in a lot languages this is not the case (German and French just to name two). So maybe this is just something weird English speaking people do...