Number notations in Enchancia

In Enchancia, different number notations exist for grouping numbers over four digits, currencies, dates and times.

## Numbers

Enchancia uses Arabic numerals: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. A comma (",") or a non-breaking space (" ") separates each group of three digits. The full stop (".") is used as a decimal separator. Examples: 10,000 / 1,234,567.89

## Measurement

Enchancia became the first Anglophone country to make the metric system the only legal units of measurement, when Enchancia was federated in 1876. Thus, Enchancia was a pioneer in abolishing the imperial system completely and the first in the Anglophone to do so. However, the use of British imperial units was restored in 1909 and Enchancia created two zones where metric and British imperial units that were mainly used in ("Metric Zone" and "Imperial Zone"), as Enchancia annexed more British territories within the Enchancian lands.

### Road signage

Most of Enchancia signs speed limits in kilometres per hour (km/h). Only four states sign speed limits in miles per hour (mph), which is the Tunbridge region. The text "MPH" is added below the speed limit (in a red circle) to indicate that the speed limit is imperial. The speed limit is metric if the speed limit sign is without the "MPH".

Distances in road signs are indicated in decimal format and kilometres in the Metric Zone, and fractional format and miles in the Imperial Zone.

## Temperature

Enchancia uses Celsius, Fahrenheit and Réaumur scales in temeperature.

Weather temperatures were traditionally marked in Réaumur scale. Weather temperature forecasting is nowadays done in either Celsius, Fahrenheit or both.

Oven temperatures were tradionally given in Réaumur scale, and the Réaumur scale is currently used in Enchancia for oven temperatures only. For example, a chocolate chip cookie recipe from a 1907 book *Enchancia's Cookie Recipes* called for baking cookies "for 12 to 15 minutes at 140 degrees". The oven temperature mentioned refers to 140 °Ré, which is approximately 175 °C or 350 °F. Ovens made in the United States or Europe for the Enchancian market have thermostats marked in Réaumur only, in multiples of 10.

Thus, cookbooks use imperial system of units for all but ovens (where temperatures are marked in Degrees Réaumur).

## Date and time

### Date

Enchancia specifies four ways to write an all-numeric numeric date: 2010-10-31 (big-endian, ISO 8601), 31/10/2010 (little-endian), 31/10/10 (little-endian, informal) or 31/X/10 (little-endian). However, the slashes can be replaced by dots (".").

In expanded notation, the month and day of the week usually spelled out in full (for example, "Sunday, 31 October 2010"), but it can be abbreviated into three letters in several cases. Newspapers of Enchancia use the form "Sunday, October 31, 2010", which is the American date format.

### Time

While most English-speaking regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia use the 12-hour clock as the predominant form of stating the time, Enchancia differs from these countries that time is almost exclusively expressed in 24-hour clock, just like in South Africa and most non-English speaking countries. Times beyond 24:00 (such as 26:00 for 0200 hours/2 a.m.) are not used by the military, aviation, computing and sciences, but are used in several contexts, mostly when the associated activity spans across midnight, such as public transport timetables, TV broadcasts and opening hours. This is because Enchancia counts hours of late night as part of previous day. The colon is the preferred separator.

#### Use of 12-hour clock and Latin abbreviations "a.m." and "p.m." in Enchancia

In Enchancian informal usage, a variety of 12-hour clock is used. The "a.m." and "p.m." abbreviations cannot be used with a specific hour in Enchancia in any form, even with an hour in the 12-hour clock. They can be used alone as a substitution for the words "morning" or "evening" in several contexts, such as tables for medication.