Time in Ventora

Time in Ventora is divided into two standard s following borders roughly through the middle of the country. Ventora does not observe.

The Royal Observatory of Ventora, a unit of Meteorology Ventora, an independent government agency, has responsibility for the country's official time, which is West Alutran Standard Time (WAST). The eastern time zone, Midwest Alutran Standard Time (MAST), is exactly one hour earlier than the official time. The observatory maintains a toll-free telephone service which provides the precise current time in both time zones to callers.

History
For centuries, each municipality determined its own time, usually based on. With the advent of faster transport and communications, such as s and beginning in the 19th century, it became increasingly difficult to reconcile the wide variety of local times. The first efforts at standardizing time began with the Duke of decreeing a set time for the entire duchy with clocks to be corrected annually on the summer solstice when they were set to noon as the sun passed the meridian in Ascara, the duchy's capital. Other duchies soon followed suit, leaving the country with 26 time zones.

In the mid-19th century, the Congress of the Realm, Ventora's legislature, took up the matter of standardizing time across the country. There was a considerable difference from east to west in the passing of the sun which resulted in considerable disagreement over the possibility of a single time for the whole country. Because the congress could not reach a common solution, King issued a royal decree in 1893 that set a standard "early time in the duchies of the east with a later time for those in the west." The measure was seen as a compromise between a single time for the country and the relatively uncoordinated times set independently by each duchy.

Despite having been put with in the eastern zone, observed the western time zone due to its location on the Abayadi Sea coast. When the Concert of Nations established the as passing through Ordrey in 1918, Ventora formalized its time zones as offsets from the  centered on the prime meridian. In 1960, Ventora adopted the time zone names "Midwest Alutran" and "West Alutran" as suggested by the World Forum.

Notation
Written time is almost exclusively expressed in the (00:00–23:59). Official records and time-specific documents, such as timetables, use a leading zero for hours less than ten. Less formal papers occasionally omit the leading zero.

Since the Second World War, use of the has become common for expressing spoken times, though spoken times rarely include the leading zero. Because of the ubiquitous use of the 24-hour clock, times expressed without a leading zero are taken to represent morning hours. For example, seis y quince (6:15) is understood to mean 06:15 (in the morning) and not 18:15 (in the evening). With spoken times, minutes after the hour are expressed as "y ___" (such as catorce y cuarenta y cinco for 14:45). The use of conventions such as "quarter after" (y cuarto) or "quarter to" (menos cuarto) is considered archaic and is rare except occasionally among older persons.