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It means 15 minutes before the hour. "Quarter past" and "Half past" mean 15 minutes and 30 minutes after the hour, respectively. These phrases were much more common in the days when all clocks and timepieces had the standard round face with numbers and hands. Understandably, people who know only digital read-outs will find these phrases confusing.

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