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In US English the example would be "two twenty-eight pm". This appears sane to me. The only complexity is for a single-digit minute, in which case you pronounc
by kbutler 14y ago
In US English the example would be "two twenty-eight pm". This appears sane to me. The only complexity is for a single-digit minute, in which case you pronounce the 0 as "oh": "two oh-eight pm". I guess you have the exact hour, too: "2 o'clock".
Is there really a country that says "2 hours 28 minutes" for 2:28 pm? Omitting "pm" seems to leave it underspecified unless you have a locale that uses 24-hour time starting at noon.
If you want complex time rules, in colloquial Thai the day is broken up into roughly 6-hour periods, with a flexible additional split in afternoon/evening...
- speeder 14y agoOh, what you are complaining is the lack of PM. I thought you was referring to crazy phrases (to me) of 3 hours and a quarter Or half past 6 or something like that. (or 7 o clock) There are no am/pm spoken because only US use am/pm format, in all other countries the default is 24-hour actually. So I think I missed that. Maybe in the future I will implement am/pm spoken :)
- bpicolo 14y agoI think his complaint was that "2:28" would be said as "two twenty-eight" in America, as opposed to "two hours twenty-eight minutes"
- kbutler 14y agoWe're ratholing here. I just wanted to let you know about something in your beautiful, polished app that made me go "Huh?" To make the app sound more natural in English, you could omit the words "hours" and "minutes". It's fine in informal speech to omit the am/pm (inferring it by context). The current phrasing made the clock sound formal to me, but informality is fine in this context. But be careful about thinking the US is unique - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Use_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Use_by_country