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- Reading time in 12 hours and 24 hours clock formats
- Converting time from 12 hours format into 24 hours format
- Converting time from 24 hours to 12 hours format
- Word problems involving Time
In East Africa, a day is divided into daytime and nighttime. Daytime is counted starting from 7:00 am and continues up to 6:59 pm. Nighttime starts from 7:00 pm and continues up to 6:59 am.
The daytime has 12 hours and nighttime has 12 hours. Also, daytime is divided into the following time: morning, afternoon and evening. The nighttime is divided into night, midnight and late night.
Internationally, a day is divided into 24 hours. A new day starts at 12:00 midnight and ends at 11:59 pm. Due to these time formats, time is generally read and written in two formats, which are 12 hours and 24 hours formats.
The 12 hours format can be read and written in Kiswahili and in English (am and pm). In Tanzania, there are various ways of reading time. One of these ways is reading time in English.
One day has a total of 24 hours and starts at 12:00 midnight. After every 24 hours, a new day starts. In writing time in 12 hours format, one day is divided into two parts, each part has 12 hours. The first part of the day is divided into night, late night, early morning, and morning as follows:
12:01 am - Night 7:00 am - Morning
1:00 am - Night 8:00 am - Morning
2:00 am - Late night 9:00 am - Morning
3:00 am - Late night 10:00 am - Morning
4:00 am - Late night 11:00 am - Morning
5:00 am - Early Morning 6:00 am - Morning
The second part of the day starts at 12:00 noon and continues up to 11:59 pm.
Therefore, from noon up to the end of the day, there are 12 hours divided into afternoon, evening and night as follows:
12:00 - Noon 6:00 pm - Evening
12:01 pm - Afternoon 7:00 pm - Night
1:00 pm - Afternoon 8:00 pm - Night
2:00 pm - Afternoon 9:00 pm - Night
3:00 pm - Late Afternoon 10:00 pm - Night
4:00 pm - Evening 11:00 pm - Night
5:00 pm - Evening 12:00 - Midnight
The 24 hours format is the international time format which is commonly used in reading and writing time. People from countries that differ in time zones may easily communicate to each other about time by using the 24 hours format. Companies such as broadcasting, railways, airlines, postal and telecommunication companies use the 24 hours format. There is a difference of 12 hours between 12 hours format and 24 hours format as shown in the
The given figure shows that 24 hours are not read on clock face. We know that a day time has 12 hours and a night time has 12 hours. In the 24 hours format, a day starts at 12:00 midnight. Time in 24 hours format is written using four digits. The first two digits from left represent the hours and the
remaining two digits represent minutes as shown in the following table:
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