In speech, a time given in 24-hour format is always followed by the word horas: el concierto comenzará a las 15:30 "quince y treinta" horas ("the concert will start at 15:30").įractional seconds are given in decimal notation, with punctuation marks used to separate the units of time (full stop, comma or single quotation marks). The use of leading zeroes to mark the hour is optional (these zeroes are most commonly found in situations involving automation), but leading zeroes must be used to mark minutes and seconds, if seconds are included at all (e. Whilst this method is still in use in some areas such as the press, the colon is preferred in most modern usage (18:20).
#The next hour minus minutes past spanish full#
A full stop was originally used to separate the hours and minutes (18.20). Official time is always given in 24-hour format. Some public vehicles, such as taxicabs, attach a letter to their vehicle to denote the driver's weekly day off. Each day of the week is written using its first letter except Wednesday, which is represented by the letter X in order to avoid confusion between martes (Tuesday) and miércoles (Wednesday), which both begin with an m. These are: L – lunes (Monday) M – martes (Tuesday) X – miércoles (Wednesday) J – jueves (Thursday) V – viernes (Friday), S – sábado (Saturday) and D – domingo (Sunday). The Spanish language also has an established convention for days of the week using one letter. In Spain, the week runs from Monday to Sunday. In Spanish, abbreviations of month names are usually three letters long, to avoid confusion between marzo (March) and mayo (May), and between junio (June) and julio (July). Exceptions include some specific Catholic holy dates, such as Miércoles de Ceniza (" Ash Wednesday") or Domingo de Resurrección (" Resurrection Sunday"), which are always written in upper case letters. Names of months and weekdays are written in lower case, as they are considered common nouns rather than proper nouns, except at the start of a sentence, when they are capitalized following the regular rules of Spanish. The format is more commonplace in automated output, such as tickets, forms, etc. Leading zeroes are rare, and are more frequently used in the months column: to allow for consistency in a tabular format. "DC" is commonly omitted for years after 200 CE. "AD" for " Anno Domini" in Latin is sometimes used instead of "DC", but it is rare. In Spanish, the suffixes for BC and AD are "AC" ( antes de Cristo, "before Christ") and "DC" ( después de Cristo, "after Christ"), respectively. Official documents, however, always include all four digits. Years are often notated in two-digit format in mainly informal contexts where this would not cause confusion, such as handwritten letters, notes or diaries. A slash, a hyphen or occasionally a full stop can be used to separate the units of time. In abbreviated notation, Roman numerals are sometimes used to represent months. In Spain, the date order is invariably day, month, year.
"Seis de diciembre del setenta y ocho" (informal, two-digit year abbreviation)Ħ December 1978, date of the 1978 Spanish constitutional referendum "Seis de diciembre de mil novecientos setenta y ocho" (formal, legal)
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