: Re: What is the proper way to write time in a manuscript? I haven't been able to find an answer to this question for a while now. What is the proper way to write time in a manuscript? I'm

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If it's for a novel, then I would say your characters should express the time in the most natural way for them to be doing so. The retired colonel would refer to 'dishes done by oh-nine-hundred' and the slacker teenager would say 'dude, around 8-ish'.

It seems rare to me in everyday living that we talk about A.M./P.M, but in caps with dots is technically correct. I suppose like the colonel and the teen, there's room in a book for the punctilious and punctual. :)

My other thought as it occurs to me about time and this: If you have an omniscient third person narrator telling the reader what time it is (I have no proof or suspicion, just tossing it out) I would re-examine and see if there's a way to put it into a character's voice.

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