Well, The International BIPM writes the time with a colon: https://www.bipm.org/en/ Best Heriberto
On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 23:34:45 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: >> On 24/6/24 21:41, Erwan David wrote: >> > Le 24/06/2024 à 22:38, Curt a écrit : > >> > > When my mom came to visit one time in the nineties she requested I >> > > change my alarm clock to AM PM time (it is now 15:25 here in the Gallic >> > > regions, where the weather has finally turned summery after >> > > forty days and >> > > forty nights of rain). > >> > AM/PM would not be so strange if between 11AM and 1 PM it was 12 AM ... >> > >> The correct format for the 24 hour clock time, does not include a >> colon between the hours and the minutes - 10:30pm is 2230 in the 24 >> hour clock format. > > I have failed miserably to find a clock display in our house that > doesn't include a colon in the time display. So I thought Google's > Images page might have some and, indeed, there are one or two. > > Where did you find this "correct" format? AFAICT, adding colons > to a string of digits is used as a self-documenting way of indicating > it's a time, whether time-of-day or an interval or period. > > Cheers, > David. > > -- ********************************************************** La vida es corta pero ancha / Life is short but wide -------------------------------------------------------------------- Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia Centro INAH-Colima Calz. Pedro A. Galván Norte 502 Col. Zalatón Colima, Colima México CP 28000 **********************************************************
