Ah, yes, good old metric time.
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They tried it in France after the revolution IIRC. Didn't work all that well :)
You probably grew up in the era of digital clocks and watches. If you used an analog watch you would know why it was easier to say a quarter to 10. 😁
To make me show up 30 minutes late because I misheard it as quarter past 10?
Way easier to just say and understand 9:45 with whatever clock you use.
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9.75
Commented just to say that this is the way it should be written, if it was a quarter to ten.
Hate to be a stickler, but wouldn't 9:75 actually be a quarter AFTER 10 seeing as how it'd be 10:15 equivalent?
I'm afraid you're not counting all 100 minutes in an hour.
Ah damn. I used imperial time units instead of metric. My bad.
the International Bureau of Weights and Measures wants to know your location
In 1788, Claude Boniface Collignon proposed dividing the day into 10 hours or 1,000 minutes, each new hour into 100 minutes, each new minute into 1,000 seconds, and each new second into 1,000 tierces (older French for "third"). The distance the twilight zone travels in one such tierce at the equator, which would be one-billionth of the circumference of the earth, would be a new unit of length, provisionally called a half-handbreadth, equal to four modern centimetres. Further, the new tierce would be divided into 1,000 quatierces, which he called "microscopic points of time". He also suggested a week of 10 days and dividing the year into 10 "solar months".[7]
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You joke, but some people are actually that dumb.
I used to work in the oilfield, first day on a new rig with a new company. We were swabbing (pulling fluid samples, super laid back work) and had 2 guys on, 2 guys off.
Sitting in the doghouse our driller yells over to the rig asking what time it is, I check the clock and yell back "About twenty to four" dude puts his hands on his hips like Karen would and starts to glare at me. My push leans out the window and yelled "Two Four Zero" blew my fucking mind.
Few days later he was dropping people off and we were at a new site so he changed pick up time to quarter to six. But in his mind that meant 25 minutes before 6, or 5:35. Needless to say he got there and I wasn't ready, which as a new roughneck on a crew is a cardinal sin.
Got in the truck and we drove about a block and I apologized and said I wasn't expecting him so soon. Dude pulled over looked over his shoulder at me and said "How quarters in a dollar, retard?". I replied "Four?" "Wrong twenty five!"
Needless to say that job didn't last long for me.
It's hard to imagine. I guess some people just don't picture a clockface or proportional time.
This dude was just a crack head whose father happened to own a rig company.
He couldn't write his own name, basic math skills was a luxury he didn't enjoy, but he was a genius when it came to fixing diesel engines and hydraulics.
Truly an enigma amoung men.
I'm not sure if this meme is doubly trolling me here, but please tell me nobody says "a quarter til ten" instead of "quarter to ten"!
What's the difference?
Maybe it's having been raised in the south, but I'm used to hearing both. Maybe it's a regional difference?
Though if I go for til these days, I'm more likely to say until rather than just til lol
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In german you'd just say quarter ten, half ten and three quarters ten for 9:15, 9:30 and 9:45 respectively
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When I was a child, I lived in walking distance of my elementary school. One time my mom had to work early so she couldn't be there to see me off to school. I was old enough to walk by myself at that point, but I relied on her to tell me when to go. Since she wasn't going to be there, she told me to leave at "quarter after 7" so I could be there on time.
I left at 7:25 because a quarter is 25, right?
I got in trouble for being late to school. Instructions unclear, Mom!
It 645 mins since the start of the day
The current time is 1702477545
I was scrolling to find this answer, ty for your service 🫡
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So, half past 9 is 9:50. I'll be damned.
Real.
nine-colon-seventyfive
It's 3/4 10
They should intentionally make it smell real bad to discourage people to do that, like how Nintendo made ds/3ds cartridges taste bad so little kids wouldn't try and put them in their mouths
I am so confused by your comment. Did you comment on the right post? What would you make smell bad in this context
definitely meant to comment on another post, super weird! I was reading a nottheonion post about how Steam was telling people not to huff the air coming out of the Steamdeck. Wonder if i hit a bug on the kbin mobile website? Hoping this reply actually goes to you and not some other post!
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I agree, it would be cool if it smelled bad when people told time wrong.
we already did that to the us measuring system but it just gave them bad taste
How about just half past or quarter till?
my parents always say it's "quarter of". I can't make it make sense.
I knew a mathy type who would occasionally jokingly say "a third past"
I think Kafka used stuff like "two and a third" sometimes
Right?!
Quarter til, quarter after...those are easy to understand. Same goes for half past.
But quarter of? I have no idea how that relates to the passage of time.
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