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in informal English, we say What time... ?
(At what time... ? is correct, but unusual.)
What time does your train leave?

2. Parts of the day
! work best in the morning.
three o'clock in the afternoon
We usually go out in the evening.
Exception: at night.
We use on if we say which morning/afternoon/etc we are talking about,
or if we describe the morning/afternoon/etc.
See you on Monday morning.
lt was ona cold afternoon in early spring, ...
3 Days
I'll phone you on Tuesday.
My birthday’s on March 21st.
They're having a party on Christmas Day.
In informal speech we sometimes leave out on. (This is very common in
American English.)
/’m seeing her Sunday morning.
Note the use of plurals (Sundays, Mondays etc) when we talk about .
repeated actions.
We usually go to see Granny on Sundays.
4 Weekends and public holidays

We use af to talk about the whole of the holidays at Christmas, New
Year, Easter and Thanksgiving (US).
Are you going away at Easter?
We use on to talk about one day of the holiday.
it happened on Easter Monday.
British people say at the weekend; Americans use on.
What did you do at the weekend?

5 Longer periods
it happened in the week after Christmas.
] was born in March.
Kent is beautiful in spring.
He died in 1616.
Our house was built in the 15th Century.