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Scheduling and timetables

Time can be written on a 12-hour clock with am and pm or on a 24-hour clock that runs from 00:00 at midnight to 23:59, and Australia writes dates day first (09/04/2026 is 9 April). A timetable lists when each service reaches each stop, so you read down to your stop and across to the first time after you arrive. A duration is counted in hours and minutes, and a trip that passes midnight finishes on the next date. This is the real knowscape from knowhere, not a picture of one. Drag it. Watch what actually changes.

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the one idea

why this one carries the topic.

Every problem is the same move: turn a messy situation into a map of steps and connections, then follow fixed rules to the cheapest path. Flowcharts, networks, timetables — different maps, same hunt.

A timetable graph of one bus route: each bus is a sloping line from Station St to Beach Rd. Change your arrival time and the next bus lights up, your wait shows in amber, and the table, wait, ride and arrival time update in 12-hour or 24-hour time, rolling to the next date after midnight.

what examiners catch — Students lose marks by subtracting times as decimals (11:15 minus 9:50 is not 1.65 h), by writing 12:30 am as 12:30 instead of 00:30, and by forgetting the date changes after midnight. Count on to the next hour, write h and min, and state the date.
what you leave with

five things, not forty.

what's underneath

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This concept has no prerequisites in knowhere's map — it is a root. Everything in the topic is built from here.

this conceptscheduling and timetablesA timetable graph of one bus route: each bus is a sloping line from Station St to Beach Rd.
the rest of algorithms & networks

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