In Sweden -- or at least in Uppsala, that is, which is the only university I have attended -- it was (and probably still is?) called "akademisk kvart", the "aca

In Sweden -- or at least in Uppsala, that is, which is the only university I have attended -- it was (and probably still is?) called "akademisk kvart", the "academic quarter" (of an hour). Everything was said to begin at <<some hour>>, but that was understood to mean at quarter past <<the hour>>.