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Measuring tools started from 0 way before the digital era. A clock is a measuring tool. The reason is, people were too used to saying "12 o'clock" and seeing a 0 would throw them off
that's true, but when you're measuring something the value you get is a cardinal, not an ordinal. I agree that we have been using 0 as a cardinal for a long time. however, we've been using 0 as an ordinal only since 1950s
people think of time as a sequence of events, hence there's 1st (1 o'clock), 2nd (2 o'clock) and so on until the 12th (12 o'clock)