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In several countries the 12-hour clock is the dominant written and spoken system of time, predominantly in nations that were part of the former British Empire, for example, the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada (excluding Quebec), Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and others ...
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.
In U.S. military use, 24-hour time is traditionally written without a colon (1800 instead of 18:00). For exact hour times, they are referred to as "hundred", so 10:00 would be referred to as "ten hundred hours" and 11:00 as "eleven hundred hours", from the mathematical interpretation of the numeral sequence.
For example, clock position on a 12-hour analog watch can be used to find the approximate bearing of true north or south on a day clear enough for the sun to cast a shadow. The technique takes a line of sight (LOS) on the visible sun, or on the direction pointed to by a shadow stick, through the hour hand of the watch.
The date and time in Australia are most commonly recorded using the day–month–year format (22 January 2025) and the 12-hour clock (10:29 pm), although 24-hour time is used in some cases. For example, some public transport operators such as V/Line [1] and Transport NSW [2] use 24-hour time, although others use 12-hour time instead.
12-hour clock is predominantly used in informal daily life, and the ante/post-meridiem indicator is often omitted where doing so does not introduce ambiguity. Half past the hour is commonly—especially in spoken Korean—abbreviated as 반 ban , which literally means “half”; for example, 13:30 is either expressed as “ 오후 1시 30분 ...
The 12-hour clock is the dominant format in Ireland, although the 24-hour clock is gaining in use. [2] In the Irish language, the 12-hour clock is used. The abbreviation a.m. is used, but it stands for ar maidin ("in the morning") rather than ante meridiem. Times after 12:00 are described as (for example) 3:00 i.n., short for iarnóin ...
Date and time notation in Italy records the date using the day–month–year format (24 gennaio 2025 or 24/1/2025). The time is written using the 24-hour clock (21:28); in spoken language and informal contexts, the 12-hour clock is more commonly adopted, but without using "a.m." or "p.m." suffixes (9:28).