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Amusingly, one of my kids gets very frustrated with how I answer what time it is on most requests. Most of my answers will be of what the nearest relevant time
by taeric 2y ago
Amusingly, one of my kids gets very frustrated with how I answer what time it is on most requests. Most of my answers will be of what the nearest relevant time is. I will never bother determining what the exact minute is from my watch. As I just can't see the value of that. Even from a digital watch, I don't see the need in giving a majorly different answer to the same question within 5 minutes or so.
- lxgr 2y agoThat's how people commonly give time in my language, I suspect mainly out of convenience: Quarter hour precision is possible to achieve with at most five syllables (and typically just two); compare that to minute-level precision, which usually takes at least 5 and sometimes as many as 10. Interestingly, spoken times also commonly use the 12 hour clock, while times are almost exclusively written as 23 hours.
- bschwindHN 2y agoI was always annoyed at my parents for doing this when I was a kid. When anyone asks me the time I always read out the minutes for whatever time my phone shows me. Maybe someone wants to make a particular bus or train and the more precise timing is appreciated, who knows!
- 1718627440 2y agoI would same, that at is communicated by the length of the stare you get after telling the time.