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In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. November 4, 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 (7:51 am). International date and time formats typically follow the ISO 8601 format (2024-11-04) for all-numeric dates, [3] write ...
ISO 8601 is an international standard covering the worldwide exchange and communication of date and time -related data. It is maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988, with updates in 1991, 2000, 2004, and 2019, and an amendment in 2022. [1] The standard provides a well-defined ...
Speaking clock. A speaking clock or talking clock is a live or recorded human voice service, usually accessed by telephone, that gives the correct time. The first telephone speaking clock service was introduced in France, in association with the Paris Observatory, on 14 February 1933. [1]
The time 8:45 may be spoken as "eight forty-five" or "(a) quarter to nine". [20] In older English, it was common for the number 25 to be expressed as "five-and-twenty". [21] In this way the time 8:35 may be phrased as "five-and-twenty to 9", [22] although this styling fell out of fashion in the later part of the 1900s and is now rarely used. [23]
Hours under 10 should have a leading zero (08:15). The time 00:00 refers to midnight at the start of a date, 12:00 to noon, and 24:00 to midnight at the end of a date, but 24 should not be used for the first hour of the next day (e.g. use 00:10 for ten minutes after midnight, not 24:10).
A set of atomic clocks throughout the world keeps time by consensus: the clocks "vote" on the correct time, and all voting clocks are steered to agree with the consensus, which is called International Atomic Time (TAI). TAI "ticks" atomic seconds. [5]: 207–218 Civil time is defined to agree with the rotation of the Earth.
He was wrong. Or so the American people decided. Allan Lichtman, the historian who predicted 9 of the 10 last elections, failed to accurately predict who voters would chose to become the 47th ...
Greenwich Mean Time is defined in law as standard time in the following countries and areas, which also advance their clocks one hour (GMT+1) in summer. United Kingdom, where the summer time is called British Summer Time (BST) Ireland, where it is called Winter Time, [22] changing to Standard Time in summer. [21]