5.84 Specific times

Specific time expressions are used as complements when you want to state the current time, day, year to someone.

• 'Well what time is it now?' --- 'It's one o'clock'.
• It was a perfect May morning.
• Six weeks isn't all that long ago, it's January.

They are also often used in prepositional phrases to say when something happened, or when it is expected to happen.

• I got there at about 8 o'clock.
• The submarine caught fire on Friday morning.
• That train gets in at 1800 hours.