Timeline for What's time in your watch can I say so if I'm talking about the time
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| Dec 11, 2023 at 18:07 | comment | added | James K | I hesitated over "by" or "on your watch". I thought of including both, but decided that considering the low level of the OP, that picking one would be clearer. | |
| Dec 11, 2023 at 17:23 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @djs - with modern digital technology it is likely that everybody has the same time. In old British war movies, the commandos, bomber crews, etc would be ordered to 'synchronize watches'. Clockwork ones. | |
| Dec 11, 2023 at 16:34 | comment | added | djs | @MichaelHarvey I concur, “what time do you have“, on your watch implied, is colloquial in at least in New England and the Midwest of the USA. Might be pronounced wuh taym'yuh got in some of those places | |
| Dec 11, 2023 at 9:07 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | People used to say 'what time do you have?'. | |
| Dec 11, 2023 at 7:07 | comment | added | Jack O'Flaherty | I think "by your watch" would be more common there. | |
| Dec 11, 2023 at 6:56 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |