Telling time

[wallypop]

Telling Time:
Do you still say:
Quarter till three, Quarter after three, "Almost three", Half past three, or use digital?

 

[Lean'n'mean]

No. I would say " a quarter to three" or "quarter past three" or "nearly three " but only if it was 5:40.
It's 17:36 as I type this.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Quattara six." "Happass six." "Quattapass six."

 

[wallypop]

Try using terms "quarter", 1/2 past, etc., with kids under 18 or so....

 

[Tiki Tom]

Here in Austria (in German) they say stuff like "three minutes before quarter to four" or "seven minutes after half 'til five." My wife and I get a kick out of it.

 

[HanauMan]

Here in Austria (in German) they say stuff like "three minutes before quarter to four" or "seven minutes after half 'til five." My wife and I get a kick out of it.

The Bavarians did the same when I lived there, didn't think it was unusual or anything.

I use 'quarter TO five' or 'half PAST seven'. I also use the 24 hour clock, so I use 1630 for 4.30.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Tabletop digital clock, manufactured by Pennwood Co., 1939.

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ that's just Deco perfect.

 

[GHT]

Tabletop digital clock, manufactured by Pennwood Co., 1939.

Our mantle clock has something of a similar appearance, must be the fluted edges, I never thought of it as art deco though. And it's not digital, it's still a nightly ritual to remember to wind it up.
My late grandfather, a retired police officer, always used the term: Five & twenty past or five & twenty to. But never transposed any other numerals on the clock. For me it's always past and to the hour. I have to stop and think when I hear five forty five. Ah yes, quarter to six.

 

[MisterCairo]

Quarter to/past, half past or "whatever hour" thirty, etc., IF I am referencing an analogue clock.

If I am referencing a digital time, I usually "read it" as presented, i.e if 3:15 I would say "three fifteen".

I am teaching our girls time oddly enough, and emphasize the quarter/ten/twenty/half/whatever past or to approach.