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Generally speaking, French speakers also use the 24-hour clock when they speak. Sometimes the 12-hour clock is used orally, but only in informal circumstances. Since there is no one-to-one equivalent of "am" and "pm" in French, context must be relied on to figure out which one is meant.
"Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille" (English: "It is five o'clock, Paris awakens") is the sixth single by the French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc, released in 1968. It appears on his second self-titled album (also known as Il est cinq heures). In 1991, it was voted best French-language single of all time in a poll of music critics. [1] [2]
The Avenue de Clichy, five pm (L'Avenue de Clichy, cinq heures du soir), 1887, H:69.2 × L:53.5 cm (there are four versions of this painting, two pastels, gouache and watercolor versions) Museum Collection Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; Woman at the waterfront (Femme au bord de l'eau) 1889, H:56 cm × L:46 cm
The colon (:) was not yet in use as a unit separator for standard times, and is used for non-decimal bases. The French decimal separator is the comma (,), while the period (.), or "point", is used in English. Units were either written out in full, or abbreviated. Thus, five hours eighty three minutes decimal might be written as 5 h. 83 m.
"It's Five O'clock" is a song by the Greek band Aphrodite's Child from their 1969 studio album It's Five O'Clock. It was also released as a single, in February 1970, on Mercury Records. The song was written by Evangelos Papathanassiou and Richard Julian Francis. [1] The song reached no. 6 in Switzerland and no. 11 in the Netherlands. [1]
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 ...
Some regions utilize 24-hour time notation in casual speech as well, such as regions that speak German, French, or Romanian, though this is less common overall; other countries that utilize the 24-hour clock for displaying time physically may use the 12-hour clock more often in verbal communication. [citation needed]
In 1804 Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière wrote (in French) about afternoon tea in Switzerland: Towards five o'clock in the evening, the mistress of the house, in the midst of the sitting-room, makes tea herself, very strong and barely sweetened with a few drops of rich cream; generous slices of buttered bread accompany it.