Adjective order: news of the past three/three past hours

[tung quoc]

Please read:

1. This is the news of the past three hours.

2. This is the news of the three past hours.

I think both are correct. How about your opinion? What is the rule?

Quoc

[Mister Micawber]

.
The past three hours. Here, the three hours is a single hunk of time.
.
_________________
Canadian-American native speaker
who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's
ESL cafe: Interview with Mister Micawber