[dba-Tech] Telling the time

[Arthur Fuller]

I know this is a little OT, but given the international nature of this
group, I thought I'd pose my question here. Recently I spent a week with my
three siblings at a cottage in North Ontario. My sister Susan has lived in
Birmingham, OK, for the past 30 years. I noticed that she has retained the
habit of referring to times "the old way", as in "a quarter of seven."
Virtually everyone I know here in Canada, when asked what time it is,
replies in the digital way, as in "6:44". So I got to wondering whether my
sister is an anomaly, or maybe it's a British thing, or a European thing.

-- 
Arthur