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Comment by lqet | Hacker News Reader

  return `Viertel vor ${nextHour}`;

There is a mistake right there! This should read

  return `Dreiviertel ${nextHour}`;

(Not "a quarter before 3", but "three-quarters of 3").

Taking to account that I am an A1 German speaker (cretaed this app for me in the first place) it was tricky to find out what's right.

A friend of mine told me that his father would say "zwei vor Dreiviertel drei" for 2:43 :)

But in the end I just folloved the rules from my A1 book.

That may be a regional thing. I hear "viertel vor" far more often.

Was meant as a joke, this is a very controversial subjects in the German speaking world :)

Thanks for the explanation! I enjoy reading about idiosyncracies like this.

My love for the German People is adequadely illustrated by the fact that this is, I quote, "a very controversial subject".