Britpick Question

[amberfocus]

How do you say 1:30?  Is it half one or half two?  Thanks!

Comments

[alizin1derland.livejournal.com]

1:30 = half one or half-past one
I think your getting half two from thinking half an hour to two ? You'd use that kind of thinking for say 1:40 would usually be stated twenty to two but 1:20 would be twenty past one.

Did any of that make sense outside my own head???

[alizin1derland.livejournal.com]

Edit: If jonathon was doing something sciencey i.e "experiment commenced at..." you probably use the more precise 1:30 pm or military style time