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 A.6.3 Time of day items
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 A "time of day item" in date strings specifies the time on a given day.
 Here are some examples, all of which represent the same time:
 
      20:02:00.000000
      20:02
      8:02pm
      20:02-0500      # In EST (U.S. Eastern Standard Time).
 
    More generally, the time of day may be given as
 `HOUR:MINUTE:SECOND', where HOUR is a number between 0 and 23, MINUTE
 is a number between 0 and 59, and SECOND is a number between 0 and 59
 possibly followed by `.' or `,' and a fraction containing one or more
 digits.  Alternatively, `:SECOND' can be omitted, in which case it is
 taken to be zero.
 
    If the time is followed by `am' or `pm' (or `a.m.' or `p.m.'), HOUR
 is restricted to run from 1 to 12, and `:MINUTE' may be omitted (taken
 to be zero).  `am' indicates the first half of the day, `pm' indicates
 the second half of the day.  In this notation, 12 is the predecessor of
 1: midnight is `12am' while noon is `12pm'.  (This is the zero-oriented
 interpretation of `12am' and `12pm', as opposed to the old tradition
 derived from Latin which uses `12m' for noon and `12pm' for midnight.)
 
    The time may alternatively be followed by a time zone correction,
 expressed as `SHHMM', where S is `+' or `-', HH is a number of zone
 hours and MM is a number of zone minutes.  You can also separate HH
 from MM with a colon.  When a time zone correction is given this way, it
 forces interpretation of the time relative to Coordinated Universal
 Time (UTC), overriding any previous specification for the time zone or
 the local time zone.  For example, `+0530' and `+05:30' both stand for
 the time zone 5.5 hours ahead of UTC (e.g., India).  The MINUTE part of
 the time of day may not be elided when a time zone correction is used.
 This is the best way to specify a time zone correction by fractional
 parts of an hour.
 
    Either `am'/`pm' or a time zone correction may be specified, but not
 both.
 
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