

However, they have been used occasionally in some special contexts in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China where business hours extend beyond midnight, such as broadcast television production and scheduling. Time-of-day notations beyond 24:00 (such as 24:01 or 25:00 instead of 00:01 or 01:00) are not commonly used and not covered by the relevant standards. See also: Date and time notation in Japan § Time
#24 HOUR CLOCK MANUAL#
The manual was updated in June 2015 to use 0000 to 2359.

In variance with this, as of 2010, the correspondence manual for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps formerly specified 0001 to 2400. Sometimes the use of 00:00 is also avoided. Style guides and military communication regulations in some English-speaking countries discourage the use of 24:00 even in the 24-hour notation, and recommend reporting times near midnight as 23:59 or 00:01 instead. While the 24-hour notation unambiguously distinguishes between midnight at the start (00:00) and end (24:00) of any given date, there is no commonly accepted distinction among users of the 12-hour notation. Legal contracts often run from the start date at 00:00 until the end date at 24:00. Similarly, some bus and train timetables show 00:00 as departure time and 24:00 as arrival time. A typical usage is giving opening hours ending at midnight (e.g. The notation 24:00 mainly serves to refer to the exact end of a day in a time interval. Where convenient, the notation 24:00 may also be used to refer to midnight at the end of a given date - that is, 24:00 of one day is the same time as 00:00 of the following day. In the 24-hour time notation, the day begins at midnight, 00:00 or 0:00, and the last minute of the day begins at 23:59. For the Christian metal album, see Veni Domine. In some contexts (including some computer protocols), no separator is used and times are written as, for example, "2359". In the past, some European countries used the dot on the line as a separator, but most national standards on time notation have since then been changed to the international standard colon.
#24 HOUR CLOCK ISO#
The most commonly used separator symbol between hours, minutes and seconds is the colon, which is also the symbol used in ISO 8601. Where subsecond resolution is required, the seconds can be a decimal fraction that is, the fractional part follows a decimal dot or comma, as in 01:23:45.678. The leading zero is very commonly used in computer applications, and always used when a specification requires it (for example, ISO 8601). A leading zero is added for numbers under 10, but it is optional for the hours. In the case of a leap second, the value of ss may extend to 60.
#24 HOUR CLOCK FULL#
Description 24-hour clockġ2-hour 24-hour digital clock in Miaoli HSR station.Ī 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 full minute. For example, in the practice of medicine, the 24-hour clock is generally used in documentation of care as it prevents any ambiguity as to when events occurred in a patient's medical history. In countries where the 12-hour clock is dominant, some professions prefer to use the 24-hour clock. Ī number of countries, particularly English-speaking, use the 12-hour clock, or a mixture of the 24- and 12-hour time systems. This system, as opposed to the 12-hour clock, is the most commonly used time notation in the world today, and is used by the international standard ISO 8601. This is indicated by the hours (and minutes) passed since midnight, from 0(:00) to 23(:59).

The modern 24-hour clock, popularly referred to in the United States as military time, is the convention of timekeeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours. A public 24 hour clock in Curitiba, Brazil with the hour hand displayed on the outside and the minute hand shown on the inside.
