It points to 3, which means it has gone a quarter of the way around the clock, so it is quarter past. This tells you it is quarter past 6. Back to top. Example 2. What time does this clock show?

What does ”a quarter of 10” mean to you? A friend asked me this question recently and I thought the answer was obvious: It means 15 minutes before 10 o’clock.

Global thinkers will have to use global time if they are ever going to keep their dates straight. The difficulty: the day starts at different hours for each of the world's 24 standard time zones; ...