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A speaking clock or talking clock is a live or recorded human voice service, ... (Dutch language), 1300 (French language), and 1400 (German language). Starting ...
On 1 May 1909, a government decree stipulated that the entirety of the Netherlands (including the Dutch railways) would be required by law to observe Amsterdam Time. [2] Daylight saving time was first attempted on 1 May 1916; the clock moved forwards one hour at 00:00 to UTC+01:19:32.13, and moved back on 1 October at 00:00. [6]
Dutch TV listings magazines invariably use 24-hour notation In written language , time is expressed in the 24-hour notation , with or without leading zero , using a full stop or colon as a separator, sometimes followed by the word uur (hour) or its abbreviation u. – for example, 22.51 uur , 9.12 u. , or 09:12 .
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.
Use of the 24-hour clock is restricted to writing and non-dialect speech ("Standard German"), which is rarely spoken in Switzerland unless people are speaking with non-natives.You'll NEVER EVER hear anyone say "20.00 Uhr" or anything like that... ever —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.251.85.74 09:03, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
The Dutch public broadcasting system (Dutch: Nederlands publiek omroepbestel) is a group of organizations that are responsible for public service television and radio broadcasting in the Netherlands. It is composed of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) foundation, which acts as its governing body, and a number of public broadcasters.
The Monumental Clock [Dutch: Monumentale klok], commonly known as the Zebra clock [Dutch: Zebraklok], is a street clock and work of public art on the Bezuidenhoutseweg street side of the Koningin Julianaplein square, next to Den Haag central railway station in The Hague, Netherlands. It is a local landmark and popular as a meeting-place for ...
Over 2018, 89.2% of Dutch viewers received television digitally. [2] Analogue television is only available via some cable operators and some fiber to the home providers, since the Dutch government ended analogue reception via airwaves in 2006. Dutch largest cable company Ziggo began to phase out the analogue signal in 2018.