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Old 03-15-2023, 11:52 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
If you use ' am' and ' pm' or ' AM' and ' PM' the space should be non breaking. The moment a copy-editor turns the page an 'am' at the start of a line will leap up shouting "Grammar Alert". Similarly an AM or PM at the start of a line will be waving a purple highlight pen

Some style guides (including CMOS as I recall) recommend avoidance of unnecessary precision - i.e. 'just after eleven in the morning blah-de-blah…' rather than 'at 11:09 a.m. blah-de-blah…'

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Most of the time AM/PM is without a space. 10A.M.
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