24-hour analog dial

Clocks and watches with a 24-hour analog dial have an <a href="/facts/Hour_hand/3n6cnGxW">hour hand</a> that makes one complete revolution, 360°, in a day (24 hours per revolution). The more familiar <a href="/facts/12-hour_clock/v2VEnL0J">12-hour analog dial</a> has an hour hand that makes two complete revolutions in a day (12 hours per revolution).
Twenty-four-hour analog clocks and watches are used today by logistics workers, fire fighters, police officers, paramedics, nurses, pilots, scientists, and the military, and they are sometimes preferred because of the unambiguous representation of a whole day at a time. Note that this definition refers to the use of a complete circular dial to represent a 24-hour day. Using the numbers from 0 to 23 (or 1 to 24) to mark the day is the <a href="/facts/24-hour_clock/25MX89DX">24-hour clock</a> system.
<a href="/facts/Sundials/RWM823m2">Sundials</a> use 24-hour analog dials—the shadow traces a path that repeats approximately once per day.
Many sundials are marked with the double-XII or double-12 system, in which the numbers I to XII (or 1 to 12) are used twice, once for the morning hours, and once for the afternoon and evening hours. So VI (or 6) appears twice on many dials, once near sunrise and once near sunset.
Modern 24-hour analog dials—other than sundials—are almost always marked with 24 numbers or hour marks around the edge, using the 24-hour clock system. These dials do not need to indicate AM or PM.

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24-hour analog dial