GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoI hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.message-squaremessage-square153fedilinkarrow-up1433arrow-down118
arrow-up1415arrow-down1message-squareI hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square153fedilink
minus-squarenednobbins@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·8 months agoLaughs in Austrian. The convention for (15-minute) fractional hours is to name the fraction of the time from the previous hour to the next one. eg: 3:15 -> “viertel vier” = “quarter four” 3:30 -> “halb vier” (“hoiba viere” in dialekt) = “half four” 3:45 -> “dreiviertel vier” = “three quarters four”
Laughs in Austrian.
The convention for (15-minute) fractional hours is to name the fraction of the time from the previous hour to the next one.
eg:
3:15 -> “viertel vier” = “quarter four”
3:30 -> “halb vier” (“hoiba viere” in dialekt) = “half four”
3:45 -> “dreiviertel vier” = “three quarters four”