English Translation
The clock says two.
Bad English translation. It should be ‘the time is two o’clock’.
I don’t know, “the time is two o’clock” sounds clunky to me. Maybe the kind of sentnce used in the introduction of some story (“the time was two o’clock; the place, a dusty old tavern in the middle of nowhere[…]”). I feel I have heard the type of construction “The clock says…”. But, if that’s wrong, maybe a more straightforward translation could be the simpler “It is 2 o’clock”
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I don’t feel strongly about exactly how you want to say ‘the time is now two o’clock’ but nobody in their right mind would ‘the clock says…’