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<noinclude>[[Category:Time, date and calendar templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character. Note: This page is for templates that perform calculations related to time or provide similar functions.
However, further complicating the computation is the fact that American schools typically meet 180 days, or 36 academic weeks, a year. A semester (one-half of a full year) earns 1/2 a Carnegie Unit. [1] The Student Hour is approximately 12 hours of class or contact time, approximately 1/10 of the Carnegie Unit (as explained below).
Formats a time of day Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Hour hour hh 1 Hour of the day, in 24 hour format Example 13 Auto value Number required Minute minute mm 2 minutes after the hour Example 3 Auto value 0 Number suggested Second second ss sec 3 Seconds after the minute Number optional Hour format hour_format Formats hours and whether to render AM/PM ...
The default date format is day month year. For month day year use {{12-hour time|format=mdy}}, for example 6:20 am on December 4, 2024; The default is not to show seconds or the day of the week. To display these use {{12-hour time|sec=on}} and/or {{12-hour time|dow=on}} respectively, for example 6:20:43 am on 4 December 2024; 6:20 am on ...
In Czech quarters and halves always refer to the following hour, e.g. čtvrt na osm (quarter on eight) meaning 7:15, půl osmé (half of eight) meaning 7:30 and tři čtvrtě na osm (three-quarters on eight) meaning 7:45. This corresponds to the time between 7:00 and 8:00 being the eighth hour of the day (the first hour starting at midnight).
Subdivisions of the day include the hour (1/24 of a day), which is further subdivided into minutes and seconds. The second is the international standard unit (SI unit) for science. Celestial sphere-based: as in sidereal time, where the apparent movement of the stars and constellations across the sky is used to calculate the length of a year.
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The quarter system started in Sweden and dates back to the days when the ringing of the church bell was the general method of time keeping. When the bell rang on the hour, students had 15 minutes to get to the lecture. [1] Thus a lecture with a defined start time of 10:00 would start at 10:15.