Telling the difference in time.
If a country's standard time is 7:00pm at the same time my country's standard time is 8:30. How will I say it?
"Your clock is -1:30 hours behind ours."
Secondly: if my watch shows the time as 6:30 pm and at the same someone else's watch shows the time as 6:25. How will I say this? Yor watch has lost 5 minutes?
Top answer
"Your clock is one and a half hours behind ours. Your watch has lost 5 minutes. "
- "Your clock is one and a half hours behind ours.
- Your watch has lost 5 minutes.
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"Your clock is one and a half hours behind ours.
Your watch has lost 5 minutes.
These sentences are not wrong, but I'd say
"You're an hour and a half behind us."
"Your watch is 5 minutes slow."
0And how will we say the opposite of "your watch is 5 minutes slow."?
May be "your watch is 5 minutes fast." But this sounds ridiculous to me.
0sundarnazAnd how will we say the opposite of "your watch is 5 minutes slow."?
May be "your watch is 5 minutes fast." But this sounds ridiculous to me.
That's correct.
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