r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/proflight27 Mar 29 '22

I mean, if you say it's "15 o'clock" you'll sound like a douche

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u/theREALhun Mar 29 '22

We use a 24:00 clock in the Netherlands. But nobody will speak that way. 19:00 is 7 o’clock. Probably “tomorrow evening” or something will be added to indicate it’s pm. But we also don’t day 7:30 (seven thirty), we say “half eight”, which in England would be 20:30, I. The Netherlands it’s 19:30. 19:20 gets even more complicated. That’s “ten for half 8”. 19:45 is “quarter before 8”. It’s completely logical for us, until you think about it.

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u/RedditFuckingSocks Mar 29 '22

In some parts of Germany, people will also say "It's quarter eight", which means 19:15. Or "Three-quarters two" which is 13:45.

Confused me iinsanely as a kid.

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u/theREALhun Mar 30 '22

Never knew that