digital clocks show us the time. to tell time, we read the numbers or “digits.”
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The first 2 digits tell the hour.The first 2 digits tell the hour.
The second 2 digits tell the minutesThe second 2 digits tell the minutes
It is twelve, thirty.
12:30
30 + 30 = 60. What time will it be in 30 more minutes?
Let’s look at another kind of clock to help us figure that out.
12:30
Though there are 24 hours in a day, there are only 12 numbers
on a clock.Each hour comes up twice a day.
Analog clocks have two hands to tell time.
It takes 60 minutes for the
big hand to go all the way around the clock face.
It takes 12 hours for the little hand to go all the way around the clock
face.
This is a picture of the famous Big Ben
in London
This is one of
the world’s largest clocks
This is also an analog
clock. It uses Roman
Numerals.
There are sixty seconds in a minute.
There are sixty minutes in a hour.
But did you know that there are 3,600 seconds in a hour and 525,600 minutes in a
year?
The hours are shown by the two numbers before
the colon.
The minutes are shown by the two numbers after the
colon.
Digital clocks show the time exactly as it
appears.