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user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days agoI’ve had, and honestly still do have issue with reading it rather than understanding. At least the way I was taught, it just sounds really weird, like 15:40 being “5 minutes till quarter to 4 in the afternoon”.
I don’t need to think about “fifteen forty”.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 3 days ago
thinking is hard
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
But why add unnecessary complexity?
Like analog clocks are fine, they show time progress in a way digital don’t.
But why read it in that more convoluted way? Like, I can tell you that you have 10100~bin~ seconds to answer some question, and you can tell that’s 20 seconds, but why the fuck do it that way. The only time it’s “five minutes till quarter to four in the afternoon” rather than 15:40 is when writing an assay, perhaps.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Perhaps just the thing where you are from? I never heard anyone referring to “five minutes before quarter to”, it is idiotic. You would say “twenty to four”.