[dba-Tech] Telling the time

[Joe O'Connell]

Ah, the Irish.  I have never been able to figure out if half six is 30
minutes before six or 30 minutes after six!

Joe O'Connell

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From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
Of Martin Reid
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 10:46 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Telling the time

Arthur

Quarter to 7, half six, quarter past 5.

That's the right way to refer to time. 

Then you have amounts, as in two thousand two hundred as opposed to 22
hundred


Martin






-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: 10 August 2015 15:42
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.

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Arthur
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