Q&A for How to Tell Time

It moves from one number to the next in 60 minutes, then multiply that by 12 numbers, and you get 720. So, it takes 720 minutes for a complete rotation, which is 12 hours.

There are 60 minutes in an hour. There are 5 tick marks in between each number on the clock. Each one is one minute. If the long minute hand is pointed at the 3, that means it is 15 minutes past the hour. At the 4, it is 20 past the hour and so on. I am sure there are plenty of online videos and worksheets to help you.

The short hand, or hour hand, would be between the 11 and the 12, while the long hand, or minute hand, would be exactly on the 10.

The minute hand should point at the number 1 on the clock, and the hour hand should point at 12.

The illustrations in this wikiHow article are based on an analog clock.

Learn how to tell time by where the sun is positioned.

On a normal analog clock, you can't. This is because people are expected to be able to tell whether it is near the beginning or the end of the day. Most people wake up after 6:00 and go to bed before 11:00, so could gauge whether it's AM or PM by the way they feel.

The hour hand would be in the middle of 12 and 1. The minute hand will be at the bottom (6).

50 minutes went by.

You can refer to the methods that are listed in the article above.

They are the same thing. A "quarter after" and "quarter of" both refer to 15 minutes after the hour.

You would count ahead by tens four times (3:55, 4:05, 4:15, 4:25) and then add the five minutes (4:25 + 5 = 4:30).

The number before the colon indicates the hour; the number to the right of the colon indicates the minutes.

I=1 V=5 X=10. Whenever a smaller number comes before a bigger Roman number, you take the bigger number and subtract it by the smaller number (e.g. IV = 4).

There are (usually) twelve marks on an analogue clock. There are three hands: the seconds hand (the longest), the minute hand (nearly as long as the seconds hand) and the hour hand (the shortest). Each interval represents 1 minute (I am counting the ones in between numbers) and there are 60 intervals in an analogue clock. Each time the hour hand moves across 5 intervals (1 number), it means an hour has passed.

Railway time is denoting time in a 24 hour clock so as to be precise and avoid confusion. A 24 hour clock is one which goes on after 12 to 13 for afternoon and 0000 hours for minutes.

You can't tell if it's AM or PM based on a clock or watch with hands, but if you go (or look) outside, you can tell. Depending on where you live, it's bright outside from roughly 6 AM to roughly 6 PM, and it's dark from roughly 6 PM to roughly 6 AM. (Those times vary with the time of year and the distance you are from the Earth's equator.)

Yes. When the minute hand is on the 12, it is something o'clock (6:00, 5:00, 2:00, etc) depending on what number the hour hand is pointing to.

That means it's one o'clock, either AM or PM.

2 hours and 10 minutes. 11:10 to 12:10 is one hour, 12:10 to 1:10 is another hour, from 1:10 to 1:20 is 10 minutes.

The minute hand is the longer hand (there are 2 hands on a clock, sometimes 3, which is called a second hand). If the minute hand points at 3, that is 15 minutes. When the minute hand reaches a number, 5 minutes have passed. 0 12 = 00, 1 = 05, 2 = 10, etc. But if it lands on one of those small lines, you have to do some counting to find out the time.