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big hand for minutes and little hand for hours.

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To tell the time to the exact minute.

On the analogue clock, each section is divided into 12 sections. Each number represents one hour.

Between each of these numbers are five smaller division, making for a total of 60, around the clock dial(face). Each of these smaller divisions representsd one minute.

When reading the time, the large hand is read against the 60 minute divisions, and the small hand is read against the number of the hour.

As examples of time reading. When both hands are at the number '12', then it is 12 noon or 12 midnight.

When the large hand is at '3' and the small hand will be just between say '1' and '2', then the clock is read as 'Quarter past one', That is 15 minutes (a quarter of '60'. Sometimes it may be read as 'one fifteen'.

Similarly, the large hand is at '6' ( 30 minutes past the hour) and the small hand is half way between '7' and '8' , it is read as 'Half past seven' or ' seven thirty'.

Similarly the large hand is at '4/8' (20/40 minutes), and the small hand is between '5' & '6' , then it is read as 'Twenty past/to five/six' or. 'Five twenty/forty'.

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