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Keep it in context.

You can use it express draw out the personality of the character, by for example omitting the minutes or, going by the other extreme, give full to the second time in a military sounding notation.

If it's not a work of fiction, refer to the locale of your target audience and their preferred format (ie. where you live, what you're writing to and their standards). I don't think there is any particularly wrong way, as long as it flows with the text, but for anything international avoid ambiguities such as the month (ie. write "6th of Jan, 2011", "06-01-2011" which depending on your location may be read as "01-06-2011"). Similarly readers used to the 24-hour system on daily basis can be confused by AM/PM (ie. they swap their meanings).

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