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The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 ... 12-hour clock World map showing the usage of 12 or ... style terms such as o'clock, half past three ...
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 ...
Times of day from :01 to :29 minutes past the hour are commonly pronounced with the words "after" or "past", for example, 10:17 being "seventeen after ten" or "seventeen past ten". :15 minutes is very commonly called "quarter after" or "quarter past" and :30 minutes universally "half past" the current hour, e.g., 4:30, "half past four".
For instance 05:35 is "5 over half 6" (literally "5 past half to 6") and 05:20 is "tien voor half 6" (literally "10 to half to 6"). When the 24-hour clock is used in spoken language, which is not quite common, usually the written form is pronounced with the hours as a number, the word " uur " (hour) and the minutes as a number.
I suspect the OP was asking about the "o'clock" bit though - and "half past eight o'clock" certainly seems an archaic, or at least unconventional, way to say it. AndyTheGrump 01:11, 14 September 2012 (UTC) Half past eight o'clock is standard American usage, although the o'clock is usually omitted as understood.
On Inauguration Day 2025, some flags will remain at half-staff in honor of deceased former President Jimmy Carter, while others will be raised to full-staff for incoming President Donald Trump.
The time is usually based on a 12-hour clock. A method to solve such problems is to consider the rate of change of the angle in degrees per minute. The hour hand of a normal 12-hour analogue clock turns 360° in 12 hours (720 minutes) or 0.5° per minute. The minute hand rotates through 360° in 60 minutes or 6° per minute. [1]
You will get time and a half for hours worked over 40. Suppose you work 45 hours in a week, and your hourly rate is $10 per hour. You’ll get $10 per hour for the first 40 hours, or $400 total.