Timeline for Am I telling the time correctly on the analog clock?
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| May 11, 2023 at 18:00 | comment | added | The Photon | Closely related: Can any time on clock be spoken as it is in numbers only (hour + minutes)? | |
| May 11, 2023 at 13:29 | answer | added | Darrel Hoffman | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 10, 2023 at 16:25 | answer | added | dan04 | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 10, 2023 at 16:01 | answer | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 10, 2023 at 14:50 | answer | added | Scott Severance | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 10, 2023 at 13:43 | answer | added | Fattie | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 9, 2023 at 20:56 | answer | added | Juhasz | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 9, 2023 at 15:48 | comment | added | Esther | In general, you would say the time on an analogue clock the same way you would on a digital clock: reading the hours and minutes as two numbers. | |
| May 9, 2023 at 15:47 | comment | added | DJMcMayhem | "It's twenty-six to ten. (9:34)" This is 'correct', but I don't think any English speaker would say it. I would say either "It's nine-thirty" (rounding) or "It's nine-thirty-four" | |
| May 9, 2023 at 13:28 | comment | added | walen | The thing with analog clocks is that they usually make it hard to know the exact minute it is (unnumbered minute marks, or no minute marks, or even no marks at all). That is the reason time is said using circle portions (a quarter, half) instead of exact time. If you are reading an analog clock, it makes little sense to give the time with more resolution than the clock itself allows, IMHO. | |
| May 9, 2023 at 10:15 | comment | added | StuperUser | @GuntramBlohm I was so glad when I learned that "Half one" isn't universally "Half (past) one", so any time I schedule meetings I default to 24H format for the avoidance of doubt. | |
| May 9, 2023 at 10:13 | answer | added | StuperUser | timeline score: 22 | |
| May 9, 2023 at 9:35 | comment | added | Tom V | In British English it is unusual to say "a quarter past", you would just say "quarter past" without "a". | |
| May 9, 2023 at 8:22 | comment | added | verbose | In the US, I've also heard of: it's ten of three, meaning it's 2:50. Which it is. I should go to bed. | |
| May 9, 2023 at 7:30 | comment | added | Neil Tarrant | One minor point here - especially when dealing with the time from an analogue clock you will tend to round up or down the time, often to the nearest five or ten minutes. So, one wouldn't say 'it's two past one' but could say 'it's one [o'clock]' or 'it's just gone one [o'clock]' in my dialect (Southern British English). I think from the opposite side I'd say 'almost' as in 'It's twenty-six past one' would be 'it's almost half (past) one'. This is less common with a digital clock where its easier to just read the number than rounding it. | |
| May 9, 2023 at 7:18 | comment | added | Guntram Blohm | At least in British English around London, it seems to be OK to omit the "past" with "half". Which is very confusing to Germans. I learned that the hard way when our (German) company invited a (British) speaker who said "We'll continue at half one", everybody grumbled about the short lunch break, everybody showed up at 12:30, except the speaker, who arrived at 1:30. | |
| May 8, 2023 at 23:08 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 8, 2023 at 22:04 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | These days I tend to mentally translate 'a quarter past nine in the evening', seen on an analogue clock, to '21:15'. | |
| May 8, 2023 at 18:11 | comment | added | neko777 | @JamesK Thanks for the comment. I did not know that. I thought there was a different way of telling time according to the type of clock because the teaching materials I read tend to present the reading of each type of clock differently. I believe your comment adds important information for non-native English learners. | |
| May 8, 2023 at 17:14 | comment | added | James K | Note that the type of clock doesn't determine how you speak the time. It is correct to look at an analog clock and say "It's nine forty-five" just as it is correct to look at a digital clock and say "It's a quarter to ten" | |
| May 8, 2023 at 16:13 | vote | accept | neko777 | ||
| May 8, 2023 at 15:49 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 25 | |
| May 8, 2023 at 15:46 | answer | added | Ethan Bolker | timeline score: 16 | |
| May 8, 2023 at 15:08 | history | asked | neko777 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |