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France most commonly records the date using the day-month-year order with an oblique stroke or slash (”/”) as the separator with numerical values, for example, 31/12/1992. The 24-hour clock is used to express time, using the lowercase letter "h" as the separator in between hours and minutes, for example, 14 h 05.
Decimal time was used in China throughout most of its history alongside duodecimal time. The midnight-to-midnight day was divided both into 12 double hours (traditional Chinese: 時辰; simplified Chinese: 时辰; pinyin: shí chén) and also into 10 shi / 100 ke (Chinese: 刻; pinyin: kè) by the 1st millennium BC.
Their method is today largely unknown to French and French-speaking musicians, but is used in China under the name of Jianpu (“simplified system”). [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Under this system, musical note lengths are familiarized by means of a series of rhythmic note names which, when spoken aloud, pattern the effect of the notes concerned.
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.
For example, Polish alexandrine (13) is almost always divided 7+6. It has been very common in Polish poetry for last five centuries. But the metre 13(8+5) occurs only rarely and 13(6+7) can be hardly found. In Polish accentual-syllabic verse caesura is not so important but iambic tetrametre (very popular today) is usually 9(5+4). [11]
Bar 431/427 is in 1 4 time. [38] Fleurs mélodiques des Alpes, the second part of Franz Liszt's Album d'un voyageur, S. 156, in one section of the sixth piece (S. 156/13). [39] Valse à capriccio sur deux motifs de Lucia et Parisina, S. 401, written by Franz Liszt, contains a section in 1 4 time in the right hand. [40] Hovenweep by Kyle Gann ...
The standard all-numeric date format is common between English and French: [8] [le] jeudi 7 janvier 2016 [le] 7 janvier 2016; 2016-01-07 (the hyphens can be replaced with non-breaking spaces or omitted [9]: 40 ) The first day of the month is written with an ordinal indicator: le 1 er juillet 2017. [10]
For example, Georges de Scudéry, in his preface to Ibrahim (1641), suggested that a "reasonable limit" for a novel's plot (a form of "unity of time") would be one year. Similarly, in his discussion on La Princesse de Clèves , the chevalier de Valincourt criticized the inclusion of ancillary stories within the main plot (a form of "unity of ...