Catalan Clock

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The Catalan time system is the traditional way to tell time in Catalan. Exclusive to the language, they divide it in fractions of a quarter and half a quarter of an hour.

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In Catalan time is read a bit differently than in most other languages. At 00:00, is twelve o’clock, but after that time is not said as “amount of time that passed or that is missing until the next hour”, but as “fraction of the current hour (which by english standard will be the next one)”.

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