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  2. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Using the definition of kè as 1⁄100 of a day, each kè is equal to 0.24 hours, 14.4 minutes, or 14 minutes 24 seconds. Every shí contains 8 1⁄3 kè, with 7 or 8 full kè and partial beginning or ending kè. These fractional kè are multiples of 1⁄6 kè, or 2 minutes 24 seconds. [ a] The 7 or 8 full kè within each shí were referred to ...

  3. Time in China - Wikipedia

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    The National Time Service Center in Mount Li, Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time) based on the National Time Service Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences located in Mount Li, Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, even though the country spans five ...

  4. 24-hour clock - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Date and time representation by country - Wikipedia

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    Whether the 24-hour clock, 12-hour clock, or 6-hour clock is used. Whether the minutes (or fraction of an hour) after the previous hour or until the following hour is used in spoken language. The punctuation used to separate elements in all-numeric dates and times. Which days are considered the weekend.

  6. 24-hour analog dial - Wikipedia

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    The 24th hour on the right side of the dial is typical for the old Italian time system of 24 hours counted from dusk. Clocks and watches with a 24-hour analog dial have an hour hand that makes one complete revolution, 360°, in a day (24 hours per revolution). The more familiar 12-hour analog dial has an hour hand that makes two complete ...

  7. Date and time notation in Asia - Wikipedia

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    If the minutes of a given time are less than ten, the preceding zero is included in speech. The time 08:05 would be read as bādiǎn língwǔfēn; 'eight hours', 'zero-five minutes', similar to how English speakers would describe the same time as "eight oh-five". Both the 12-hour and 24-hour notations are used in spoken and written Chinese.

  8. Universal Time - Wikipedia

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    Universal Time ( UT or UT1) is a time standard based on Earth's rotation. [ 1] While originally it was mean solar time at 0° longitude, precise measurements of the Sun are difficult. Therefore, UT1 is computed from a measure of the Earth's angle with respect to the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF), called the Earth Rotation Angle ...

  9. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    [111] [116] The first person to suggest travelling with a clock to determine longitude, in 1530, was the Dutch instrument maker Gemma Frisius. The clock would be set to the local time of a starting point whose longitude was known, and the longitude of any other place could be determined by comparing its local time with the clock time. [117] [118]