[dba-Tech] Telling the time

[Zimmer, Michael]

Hah!  I love this topic.  I always have used, and continue to use "half past.....quarter to....." but then again, I'm and old curmudgeon.  When I introduced my sons to telling time this way it was a struggle.  They apparently don't even try to do that in their school -- digital only.  Now, however, they are fully conversant in the arcane language of the analog dial.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Kathryn Bassett
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 11:08 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Telling the time

I do both, depending on the context. If I'm using my watch, then the "quarter" answer. If computer, then exact. Also, if the question is because of something specific (tv show, flight info etc), then I try to be exact.
Besides, it depends on the accuracy of the clock, watch, computer etc.
Kathryn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On 
> Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
> Sent: 10 Aug 2015 8:17 AM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Telling the time
> 
> We've always said 'quarter past...' and 'quarter to...'
> 
> R
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On 
> Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 7:42 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Telling the time
> 
> 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


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