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hal saac (southern times) start rise-and-fall-sun...something to be proud of.

cheers
rw

I never understood that method, like 6 is 12 oclock or something like that

I think its how somalis used to tell time back in the days. The time starts when fajr starts, so the first hour of the day (hal saac) is when the sun rises.

They don't do that in the north? Here I was thinking it was the same all over the country. By the way I think they do it in parts of Ethiopia too.

Righwing

Qaldaan waaxiiid

u will never learn af soomaali wacaan

I hate it, because it always confuses me. I think I'm just used to the English time-telling, so the Somali one confuses me.

Hal-sac is 7 in the morning? .....But I completely forgot what 19:00 is in SS(South Somalia)? Is it the same, Hal-Sac? Wasn't 17:00 Tooban-iyo-kow-sac?

To be honest I think I just tell the time in English.

yes south somalia has it's own local unique way to tell time unlike the rest who borrowed the queens way for telling time

Warsan_Star_Muslimah wrote:I hate it, because it always confuses me. I think I'm just used to the English time-telling, so the Somali one confuses me.

Hal-sac is 7 in the morning? .....But I completely forgot what 19:00 is in SS(South Somalia)? Is it the same, Hal-Sac? Wasn't 17:00 Tooban-iyo-kow-sac?

To be honest I think I just tell the time in English.

Warsan qaldaan giirl

didnt u grow up in Xamar

I think they say, Hal-Sac dhabarta/habeenimo Meaning 7:00pm in the night.

Qoraxeey,

Yes I was born and bred in Xamar, but left at a very young age, I've lived most of my life in England. Hence, why I like it the Northern way.

I'm not afraid to say that I like the Northern way of telling the time regardless of where I'm from. Taste is taste.

LOL

I always have to double check myself before I tell a person what time it is in Somali. I can't it's todobo when it's 7 O'clock. Instead waa hal saac. Same thing with 11 Oçlock, waa shantii!

Yupe the same as Ethiopians .

Hal saac = 7 am
Labo saac = 8 am
sedex saac = 9 am
afar saac = 10 am
shan saac = 11 am
lix saac = 12 noon
etc...

Rightwing wrote:hal saac (southern times) start rise-and-fall-sun...something to be proud of.

cheers
rw

war waa arabic times
carabtu intayna dhaqan doorsomin saasay u isticmaali jireen. tarikhdana hijri ayay isticmali jireen.
sucudiga ugu danbeeyey dad isticmali isna wuu joojay. lkn waxan filaya inay weli hijri isticmalan.

rightwiing, reer koonfurku waxbadan ayay inagaga saxsanyihin, kol haday arabic times weli iyagu haystaan dee waa wax fiican ee dacayada ka da.

SahanGalbeed wrote:Yupe the same as Ethiopians .

Ethiopians too I though this was unique for koonfurstan.

cheers rw