[dba-Tech] Telling the time

[John W. Colby]

Everyone knows half six is 3.

;)

John W. Colby

On 8/10/2015 8:39 PM, Joe O'Connell wrote:
> Ah, the Irish.  I have never been able to figure out if half six is 30
> minutes before six or 30 minutes after six!
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> Joe O'Connell
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Arthur
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> Quarter to 7, half six, quarter past 5.
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> That's the right way to refer to time.
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> Then you have amounts, as in two thousand two hundred as opposed to 22
> hundred
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> Martin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
> Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: 10 August 2015 15:42
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> Subject: [dba-Tech] Telling the time
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> 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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