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Minutes past the hour means those minutes are added to the hour; "ten past five" means 5:10. Minutes to, 'til and of the hour mean those minutes are subtracted; "ten of five", "ten 'til five", and "ten to five" all mean 4:50. Fifteen minutes is often called a quarter hour, and thirty minutes is often known as a half hour. For example, 5:15 can ...
Times of day from :01 to :29 minutes past the hour are commonly pronounced with the words "after" or "past", for example, 10:17 being "seventeen after ten" or "seventeen past ten". :15 minutes is very commonly called "quarter after" or "quarter past" and :30 minutes universally "half past" the current hour, e.g., 4:30, "half past four".
But in German halb acht, Dutch half acht, and Swedish halv åtta, all invariably mean 7:30. For the quarters, e.g. 7:15 and 7:45, in German different dialects use Viertel nach sieben or viertel acht (literally "quarter past seven" or "quarter eight"), and Viertel vor acht or dreiviertel acht (literally "quarter to eight" or "three-quarters ...
Jay Z wrote 4:44 one night when he woke up at 4:44 a.m. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
For example, "half ten" means 10:30 (a.m. or p.m.). This is itself an abbreviation of an older colloquialism, "half past ten". The abbreviation can cause misunderstanding with non-native speakers as this contrasts with many European languages, where the same type of expression denotes 30 minutes before the hour.
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England, we are prone to saying "Half Eight" to mean 8:30 - though logically it might mean 4:00. I suspect the OP was asking about the "o'clock" bit though - and "half past eight o'clock" certainly seems an archaic, or at least unconventional, way to say it.
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