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Subject:Antwort: time From:Kerstin -dot- Molthagen -at- etas -dot- de To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 May 2002 17:08:33 +0200
Hi Elizabeth!
Elizabeth wrote:
>It's 14.34, or 2.34pm, in Ireland. Would anyone in the rest of Europe
write
>this time as 14:34 or 2:34pm? Would readers be confused by the colon in a
>time expression instead of the full stop?
I would use _only_ the colon. It's the full stop that would confuse me;
full stops within numbers to me indicate a fraction - 14 hours plus 0.34
(34/100) hours in this case.
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