[dba-Tech] Telling the time

[Stuart McLachlan]

Yep, me too:

"ten to five" in general but  4:49 or 4:51 if needed.

Unless I'm the marine radio.  Then it's  "ETA seventeen hundred", or "The first race signal will 
be at oh nine twenty five" 

On 10 Aug 2015 at 14:47, Gustav Brock wrote:

> Hi Arthur
> 
> That is very common here, indeed for inaccurate timing, say +/- five
> minutes. However, for a train departure on the minute, we would use
> 6:44 or 18:44.
> 
> /gustav
> 
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne
> af Arthur Fuller Sendt: 10. august 2015 16:42 Til: Discussion of
> Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Emne:
> [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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