What Does Quarter To Something Mean?

[Guest hosuklover]

- answered

In speech, when people say

quarter to 1?

does it mean 12:45 or 1:!5??

[Guest Classic Example]

There's a quarter of an hour left until 1:00. So a quarter of an hour is 15 minutes so since there's 15 minutes until 1:00 it is 12:45. That's what it means haha.

[rebt]

it means 12:45

1:15 means quarter after 1

[Guest hosuklover]

okie got it!!>

i get confused sometimes.. hehe thanks..

what is the other one that we say that's after?

quarter past 1??

There's a quarter of an hour left until 1:00. So a quarter of an hour is 15 minutes so since there's 15 minutes until 1:00 it is 12:45. That's what it means haha.

[onewhite lie]

Before:

It's like a 15 minutes before thing.

It would be 12:45, not 1:15.

Past:

I'm taking a guess it's the other way around ;p

Might be wrong, I don't hear that or use that a lot.

[Guest Classic Example]

Yeah quarter past 1 would be 1:15. 15 minutes past 1.

[Guest hosuklover]

thanks!

it means 12:45

1:15 means quarter after 1