Telling and Asking the Time

Time

Waktu atau masa menurut Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (1997) adalah seluruh rangkaian saat ketika proses, perbuatan, atau keadaan berada atau berlangsung. Dalam hal ini, skala waktu merupakan interval antara dua buah keadaan/kejadian, atau bisa merupakan lama berlangsungnya suatu kejadian (https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waktu)

We measure time mainly with seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years:

1000 milliseconds	=	1 second
60 seconds	=	1 minute
60 minutes	=	1 hour
24 hours	=	1 day
7 days	=	1 week
28, 29, 30 or 31 days	=	1 month
365 or 366 days	=	1 year
12 months	=	1 year
10 years	=	1 decade
100 years	=	1 century
1000 years	=	1 millennium

Telling & Asking the time
Telling the time

Question:	What's the time, please?
Answer:	It's three o'clock.

	It's...	It's...
3.00	three o'clock	three
3.02	just gone three o'clock	three oh two
3.03	three minutes past three	three oh three
3.05	five past three	three oh five
3.09	nine minutes past three	three oh nine
3.10	ten past three	three ten
3.15	a quarter past three	three fifteen
3.20	twenty past three	three twenty
3.21	twenty-one minutes past three	three twenty-one
3.25	twenty-five past three	three twenty-five
3.30	half past three	three thirty
3.35	twenty-five to four	three thirty-five
3.40	twenty to four	three forty
3.45	a quarter to four	three forty-five
3.50	ten to four	three fifty
3.55	five to four	three fifty-five
3.57	three minutes to four	three fifty-seven
3.58	nearly four c'clock	three fifty-eight
4.00	four o'clock	four

Here are some phrases you can use when you want to know the time:

·   What's the time?

·   What time is it?

·   Have you got the right time?

·   What time do you make it?

To tell someone what the time is, we can say "The time is..." or, more usually, "It's...". Here is a typical dialogue:

The chart on the right shows you two different ways to tell someone what the time is.