Ah, yes, good old metric time.
They tried it in France after the revolution IIRC. Didn’t work all that well :)
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.
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
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I prefer saying it’s 9:270°
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!
“how much does a ticket cost?”
“A quarter til 3”
In danish this is basically how it’s done on increments of a half.
One and one half is said as half (til) two
But it’s only on small numbers. It goes Half, one, half til two, two, half til three (or optionally two and a half!), three, three and a half…
Dont even get me started on the rest of the numbers
It 645 mins since the start of the day
The current time is 1702477545
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Real.
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How about just half past or quarter till?
my parents always say it’s “quarter of”. I can’t make it make sense.
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.
