I'm wanting to state the time in the middle of a sentance. Should I say 8:00 a.m. 8:00 A.M. 8:00 am or 8:00 AM Thanks, I feel like it should be A.M. but then it looks strange because there's a period in the middle of the sentance and the next word is not capitalized.
. I've seen time written as eight o'clock, see you at eight, 8am, 8 a.m., 8 A.M. I would say just be consistent. And as for the full stop (period) in the middle of a sentence, that's a non sequitur. It's only abbreviating Latin.
I've just googled 'writing the time' and found this (I'm not sure how to provide links) 4p.m. or 4P.M. both are correct 4pm and 4 PM are incorrect - you need the full-stops/periods.
All of these and more are correct: US English: 08:00 A.M. / 08:00 a.m. /0800 A.M. British English: 0800am / 08.00 AM / 08.00AM /0800 AM In British English we rarely put full stops (and for e.g. Mr /Dr /Prof) and normally it is a full stop, not a colon.
. What gets me is that those time examples are totally illogical - even if supposedly correct for a ms. 0800 can only be a.m. If it was p.m., it would be 2000 (or 08:00/20:00 with or without a following h.) Therefore it should be a simple 8 a.m. or 8 p.m. - no redundant leading 0.
^^ It can be like that. It's just that if you are giving the time digitally like that, the 0 will be there on the display anyway. Also, not every country uses the 24 hour clock, so they see 8.00 and are still not sure if it's evening or morning.
I'm an American who lives in Britain (Scotland) and I've acquired the British way of writing time. It makes sense, and doesn't need a lot of extra dots, etc. 8.15pm How simple is that?
Thanks for your help everyone! I think I'm going to go with a.m. the lower case letters look better in the middle of a sentance IMO.
