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Re:Ghoti by Kim_Bruning on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:19AM (#23590899)
Oh wow, it actually is 8:30 in English. How interesting!

In dutch, half eight is 7:30 too.

7:40 is weird: "ten over half eight"

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Re:Ghoti by imglorp on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:35AM (#23599113)
A little more formal would be "half past eight" which clears up the ambiguity, as does "quarter til eight". Not sure who uses that aside from occasionally in US.
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Re:Ghoti by Balgair on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:27PM (#23593529)
Spanish does the same thing with time, so it's not uncommon.

That said, the way the French count numbers is, I think, universally confusing. Knowing the French, this is intentional :P

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