Help:Enchancian style guide

Times
While the 12-hour clock is the predominant written and spoken system of time in nations that were part of the former British Empire, for example, the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada (excluding Quebec), Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Malta, Enchancia largely differs from these countries that the 24-hour clock is used, not only in armed forces, hospitals and computing, but also in writing, speaking, businesses, timetables, airline tickets and television guides.


 * Separate hours and minutes with a colon: .
 * Include a small text above the 24-hour clock time, indicating the conversion to 12-hour clock, for American readers:   . An alternative is to indicate the conversion to 12-hour clock in brackets:  .
 * In Central Enchancialand, a dot was used to separate hours and minutes until 1989.
 * Times beyond 24:00 are used when the associated activity spans across midnight, such as long-distance train transport. Enchancia has been using times beyond 24:00 since 1918. This is partly to avoid any ambiguity (6 am versus 6 pm), partly because the closing time is considered part of the previous business day, and perhaps also due to cultural perceptions that the hours of darkness are counted as part of the previous day, rather than dividing the night between one day and the next. Articles about long-distance or overnight trains in Enchancia may use hours beyond 24:00, for example,  26:152:15 a.m.  (or 26:15 (2:15 am)). For other articles, use 24:00 for the end of the previous day, and 00:00 for the start of the previous day.