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  2. Greenwich Time Signal - Wikipedia

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    Greenwich Time Signal. Graph of the six pips. The Greenwich Time Signal (GTS), popularly known as the pips, is a series of six short tones (or "pips") broadcast at one-second intervals by many BBC Radio stations to mark the precise start of each hour. The pips were introduced in 1924, generated by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and from 1990 ...

  3. 24-hour clock - Wikipedia

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    24-hour digital clock in Miaoli HSR station.. A time of day is written in the 24-hour notation in the form hh:mm (for example 01:23) or hh:mm:ss (for example, 01:23:45), where hh (00 to 23) is the number of full hours that have passed since midnight, mm (00 to 59) is the number of full minutes that have passed since the last full hour, and ss (00 to 59) is the number of seconds since the last ...

  4. Hír TV - Wikipedia

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    On 26 November 2002, the TV channel was registered using 20 million Hungarian forints (~64.350 euros) of capital.The first CEO of television was Gábor Borókai, who had recently served as Viktor Orbán's first government spokesman (from 1998 to 2002), and the first editor-in-chief was Imre Dlusztus, who was the sometime editor-in-chief of Délmagyarország (meaning "Southern Hungary"), the ...

  5. Military time zone - Wikipedia

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    The military time zones are a standardized, uniform set of time zones for expressing time across different regions of the world, named after the NATO phonetic alphabet. The Zulu time zone (Z) is equivalent to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and is often referred to as the military time zone. The military time zone system ensures clear ...

  6. 24-hour analog dial - Wikipedia

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    The 24th hour on the right side of the dial is typical for the old Italian time system of 24 hours counted from dusk. Clocks and watches with a 24-hour analog dial have an hour hand that makes one complete revolution, 360°, in a day (24 hours per revolution). The more familiar 12-hour clock has an hour hand that makes two complete revolutions ...

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  8. 24-hour news cycle - Wikipedia

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    24-hour news cycle. The 24-hour news cycle (or 24/7 news cycle) is the 24-hour investigation and reporting of news, concomitant with fast-paced lifestyles. The vast news resources available in recent decades have increased competition for audience and advertiser attention, prompting media providers to deliver the latest news in the most ...

  9. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The time between each gēng is 1⁄10 of a day, making a gēng 2.4 hours—or 2 hours 24 minutes—long. The 5 gēngs in the night are numbered from one to five: yì gēng (一 更) (alternately chū gēng (初更) for "initial watch"); èr gēng (二更); sān gēng (三更); sì gēng (四更); and wǔ gēng (五更). The 5 gēngs in daytime ...