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  2. 12-hour clock - Wikipedia

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    The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods: a.m. (from Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday") and p.m. (from Latin post meridiem, translating to "after midday").

  3. Date and time representation by country - Wikipedia

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    ISO 8601. International standard ISO 8601 ( Representation of dates and times) defines unambiguous written all-numeric big-endian formats for dates, such as 2022-12-31 for 31 December 2022, and time, such as 23:59:58 for 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 58 seconds. These standard notations have been adopted by many countries as a national standard, e ...

  4. Date and time notation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. August 25, 2024) with a comma before and after the year if it is not at the end of a sentence [ 2] and time in 12-hour notation (1:23 am). International date and time formats typically follow the ISO 8601 format (2024-08-25) for all-numeric dates, [ 3] write ...

  5. 24-hour clock - Wikipedia

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    The modern 24-hour clock is the convention of timekeeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours. This is indicated by the hours (and minutes) passed since midnight, from 00 (:00) to 23 (:59), with 24 (:00) as an option to indicate the end of the day. This system, as opposed to the 12-hour clock, is the ...

  6. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Using the definition of kè as 1⁄100 of a day, each kè is equal to 0.24 hours, 14.4 minutes, or 14 minutes 24 seconds. Every shí contains 8 1⁄3 kè, with 7 or 8 full kè and partial beginning or ending kè. These fractional kè are multiples of 1⁄6 kè, or 2 minutes 24 seconds. [ a] The 7 or 8 full kè within each shí were referred to ...

  7. Hour - Wikipedia

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    Midnight to 1 a.m. on a 24-hour clock with a digital face. An hour ( symbol: h; [ 1] also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time historically reckoned as 1⁄24 of a day and defined contemporarily as exactly 3,600 seconds ( SI ). There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day.

  8. List of time zones by country - Wikipedia

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    France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including its claim in Antarctica and all other counties ). Many countries have daylight saving time, one added hour during the local summer, but this list does not include that information. The UTC offset in the list is not valid in practice during daylight saving ...

  9. Date and time notation in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Time. In written German, time is expressed almost exclusively in the 24-hour notation (00:00–23:59), using either a colon or a dot on the line as the separators between hours, minutes, and seconds – e.g. 14:51 or 14.51. The standard separator in Germany (as laid down in DIN 1355, DIN 5008) was the dot. In 1995 this was changed to the colon ...