AGLC4 Rule 1.11.3: Point in Time or a Period of Time

A specific point in a recording is given as hours, minutes and seconds separated by colons. Hours are always shown, as a single 0 if under an hour, and minutes and seconds always appear as two digits.

AGLC4 page 32

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 32
Hours:Minutes:Seconds

A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.

Formatting

  • Colons between hours, minutes and seconds, with no spaces and no am or pm.
  • Hours always present; a single 0 when under one hour.
  • Minutes and seconds always two digits.
  • In a citation the timestamp is the pinpoint: it follows the closing bracket of the publication details after one space, with no comma.
  • A span of timestamps is joined by an unspaced en dash.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 32
  1. 152
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal International, 1962) 0:43:00.
  2. 153
    The Dark Knight (Warner Brothers Pictures, 2008) 0:54:58–0:55:11.

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 32
  • 0:43:00
  • 0:54:58–0:55:11

See also

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