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[9] [10] On December 5, 1968, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission outlawed "give-ups", which cut the number of trades on the BSE down to 24.6 million shares in 1970. [9] [11] In 1981, the BSE hired Charles J. Mohr, a 34-year-old vice president of the New York Stock Exchange, to serve as its first full-time paid chairman and CEO. [12]
The Government of Canada specifies the ISO 8601 format for all-numeric dates (YYYY-MM-DD; for example, 2025-02-20). [2] It recommends writing the time using the 24-hour clock (10:03) for maximum clarity in both Canadian English and Canadian French, [3] but also allows the 12-hour clock (10:03 a.m.) in English. [4]
Whether the 24-hour clock, 12-hour clock, or 6-hour clock is used. Whether the minutes (or fraction of an hour) after the previous hour or until the following hour is used in spoken language. The punctuation used to separate elements in all-numeric dates and times. Which days are considered the weekend.
The primary time signal is a series of 300 ms-long 1,000 Hz tones, transmitted once per second, on the second. The following exceptions to the pattern provide additional information: The top of the minute is marked by a half-second-long beep. The top of the hour is marked with a one-second-long beep, followed by nine seconds of silence.
Speakers of Canadian French predominantly use this system, but most Canadian English speakers use the 12-hour clock in everyday speech (e.g. 2:57 pm), even when reading from a 24-hour display, similar to the use of the 24-hour clock in the United Kingdom.
This system, as opposed to the 12-hour clock, is the most commonly used time notation in the world today, [A] and is used by the international standard ISO 8601. [1] A number of countries, particularly English speaking, use the 12-hour clock, or a mixture of the 24- and 12-hour time systems.
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