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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language states "By convention, 12 AM denotes midnight and 12 PM denotes noon. Because of the potential for confusion, it is advisable to use 12 noon and 12 midnight". [34] E. G. Richards in his book Mapping Time (1999) provided a diagram in which 12 a.m. means noon and 12 p.m. means midnight. [35]
Punctuation and spacing styles differ, even within English-speaking countries (6:30 p.m., 6:30 pm, 6:30 PM, 6.30pm, etc.). [ citation needed ] Most people who live in countries that use one of the clocks dominantly are still able to understand both systems without much confusion; the statements "three o'clock" and "15:00", for example, are ...
The New Zealand Government readability guidelines recommend writing showing the time in a 12-hour format, [3] although the 24-hour clock (04:41) can be used in technical fields such as military, aviation, computing, navigation, transportation and the sciences. [citation needed] The before noon/after noon qualifier is usually written as "am" or ...
1999-12-31 (unusual except when required for sorting purposes) The year may also be written in full (31/12/1999). [ 1 ] It contrasts with date and time notation in the United States , where the month is placed first, leading to confusion in international communications: in the United States, 2/11/03 is interpreted as 11 February 2003.
The daytime canonical hours of the Catholic Church take their names from the Roman clock: the prime, terce, sext and none occur during the first (prīma) = 6 am, third (tertia) = 9 am, sixth (sexta) = 12 pm, and ninth (nōna) = 3 pm, hours of the day. The English term noon is also derived from the ninth hour.
The 12-hour notation is also commonly used, by adding 午前 ("before noon") or 午後 ("after noon") before the time, e.g. 午前10時 for 10 am. [1] Japanese broadcasting and newspapers usually use a modified 12-hour notation in which midnight is 午前0時 (0 am) and noon is 午後0時 (0 pm) and, for example, "quarter past midnight" is ...
The 12-hour notations is also used orally but instead of AM/PM, it's necessary to specify the place of ... (Night) 00:00 to 00:59 12 giờ đêm: Sáng (Morning) 01: ...
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.