Poll: Telling the time

[Antitonic]

I mix, for example, between "quarter past" and "X:15". It depends how I feel at a given time.

I won't use AM/PM, though. If you can't tell if it's night or day, you have bigger problems than not knowing the time.

 

[natster43]

Usually the exact time.

 

[Creator002]

Usually to the nearest five, but I add "it's about" just before. Even if it's on an exact number, I still say "it's about".

 

[R3dF41c0n]

Exact time. Usually if the minute is a multiple of 10 or 5 past the 30 minute mark I say "x til y" with y being the next hour.

 

[mireko]

Spoiler: What time is it?

ADVENTURE TIME

Or I just go with the closest five minutes. We have a reasonable amount of ways to tell the time in Norwegian ("ten to half", "five past half", etc.), so it's never really been a problem for me.

 

[Jonluw]

Depends completely on the situation in which someone's asking for the time.
Sometimes I'll just go with parroting what I just read on the clock; sort of acting with no trace of conscious thought. It's the equivalent of when you look at the clock and don't know what time it is afterwards. Only I've told it to someone before forgetting it.

I guess I normally round to the nearest five minutes, but I often just go to the nearest quarter hour as well, since that's how telling the time works in Norwegian I guess. I'll normally round 10:40 to "quart to 11" (to translate in a very literal fashion).

 

[Aesthetical Quietus]

When I check my watch I round it to the nearest five, but always prefix with "it's about...", but if I check the computer or my phone then you're getting the exact time because it's easier just to read it out.

Exactly this.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

I have an analogue wrist-watch so it just tends to be easier to round to nearest 5 so i don't have to count the tiny lines around the edge, but i guess if (like one of my friends) i'd grown with a digital watch, which tell the exact time quite clearly, i'd be saying it as exact as it was displayed.

It's about convenience, i guess.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

When I check my watch I round it to the nearest five, but always prefix with "it's about...",

I do that as well.

but if I check the computer or my phone then you're getting the exact time because it's easier just to read it out.

Though I don't do that as it just seems lazy.

- Omni ^_^

 

[Philol]

Nearest 5, just what comes to mind first when reading the time.

 

[StBishop]

Its time to get a watch....budumdump-(face punched)

Every single time. Every. Single. Time.

Them I say "about/just before/just after" and round to the nearest quarter of an hour.
I also usually guess; I don't even check my watch until I've said it, I merely look at my watch to confirm my guess.

 

[DanielBrown]

Nearest five. Haven't met anyone so far who says the exact time, but then I again... I don't really ask for the time very often.

 

[Double A]

If it's analogue, I round to the nearest 5. If it's digital, I do exact.

"5 past" needs to die in a fire.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I always do exact time. But that's my own idosynchrony because I like knowing the exact time.

 

[Vegosiux]

Nearest five on analog, exact time on digital.

 

[Ectoplasmicz]

Eh, a mix. Depending of the time of course, it's either 'two-ish' or maybe 'quarter to' or 'half past'. You know, I'm not sure this is thread-worthy, but then, I'm the one posting in it eh? At least it's not a poll.

Ive seen many threads with less point than this

Its more of getting an idea of how other people go about to everyday things in their lives. Something that interests me i guess!

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Spoiler: What time is it?

ADVENTURE TIME

You win this round.

OT: I wear a digital wrist watch so I tell the time exactly how it is.

I'm not some stupid good-for-nothing that's too lazy to look at an analog clock!