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Random musings while eating lunch. Does the way that time is conventionally told in your culture affect your experience of/consciousness of time?
E.g., If you use a 24-hour clock like the French, do you have a different sense of morning/evening? 1/
E.g., If you use a 24-hour clock like the French, do you have a different sense of morning/evening? 1/
Both Germans and British use 'minutes past' or 'minutes to', a lot, but Germans say 'minutes past the half-hour' and for British, it's always minutes past/to the top of the hour. Does this lead to differences in the way an hour is experienced? 2/
In the Philippines we tend to use exact timestamps. ("It's 4:58" rather than "it's 2 minutes to 5"). Is this related to the reason why Filipinos don't necessarily start things on the dot (at exactly 5) but rather, at 5-ish? Because the top of the hour isn't emphasised as much? 3
Finally, if you grew up telling time on a digital clock rather than an analogue clock, does this affect your ability to think of time as fractions of an hour ("half-past"/"a quarter past"), because you don't immediately think of the fractions of a clock face?
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