Monday, October 11, 2010

Robbery -- Write With (AP) Style, Part 2

Is it 11:00 p.m. or 11 p.m. or 11 pm or 11 o'clock?

It's 11 p.m., or maybe 11 o'clock. Under "times":

Use figures except for noon and midnight. Use a colon to separate hours from minutes: 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m. . . . The construction 4 o'clock is acceptable, but time listings with a.m. or p.m. are preferred.

Is it 24 hours or 24 hrs? Under "time sequences" (right after the listing for "time"!):
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Spell out: 50 hours, 23 minutes, 14 seconds.

In general, do you spell out the number three, or use the digit 3? What about two and 2? Eleven and 11?

We've already gone over these, folks. You tell me.

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