3 twelths to Pink Cornflakes

I've invented a new way of telling the time, and before you laugh, I bet whoever thought of telling the time in 24 hours was laughed at when they first came up with the idea.


so hours just go in rainbow colours:

1 O'clock = Red O'clock
2 O'clock = Orange O'clock
3 O'clock = Yellow O'clock
4 O'clock = Green O'clock
5 O'clock = Blue O'clock
6 O'clock = Purple O'clock

Then from 7 O'clock to 12 O'clock you have to think of the same rainbow clours and visualise them being mixed with white paint and that becomes the colour e.g

7 O'clock = Pink O'clock
8 O'clock = Peach O'clock
9 O'clock = Cream O'clock
10 O'clock = Mint Green O'clock
11 O'clock = Baby Blue O'clock
12 O'clock = Lilac O'clock

-Then for telling the minutes you alway say how long to the next hour, never how long past the hour.

-Time is always said in fractions it's never 10 to an hour it's always 1 sixth to the hour.

-The fractions that are banned are half and quarters they are banned because they aren't very original.

-This leaves Twelths, sixths, and thirds.

so 5 past = 11 twelths to
10 past = 5 sixths to
quarter past=9 twelths to
twenty past = 2 thirds to

Therefore:
9:45 = 3 twelths to mint green O'clock
4:10= 5 sixths to blue O'clock
7:30 = 6 twelths to peach O'clock
1:40= a third to orange O'clock

Then if you want to be able to know wheather it's 2pm or 2am you add a food to the end of your time. The problem I find with am and pm is that I think 2am is really the evening and 2pm is really the morning, so I feel the need for three different endings to depict the time of day. I have chosen the endings cornflakes to represent morning, sandwidge to reprosent afternoon, and pizza to reprosent evening/night time. so If you haven't learned the official times off by heart which of course you should, you can just guess at whats the most likely thing that you would be eating at that time, but here are the offcial times. I've taken off the unessiasry O'clocks and added the AM/PM substitutes

1am-Red Pizza
2am-Orange Pizza
3am-Yellow Pizza
4am-Green Pizza

5am-Blue Cornflakes
6am-Purple Cornflakes
7am-Pink Cornflakes
8am-Peach Cornflakes
9am-Cream Cornflakes
10am-Mint Green Cornflakes
11am-Baby Blue Cornflakes

12 noon-Lilac Sandwidges
1pm-Red Sandwidges
2pm-Orange Sandwidges
3pm-yellow Sandwidges
4pm-Green Sandwidges

5pm-Blue Pizza
6pm-Purple Pizza
7pm-Pink Pizza
8pm-Peach Pizza
9pm- Cream Pizza
10pm-Mint Green Pizza
11pm-Baby Blue Pizza
Midnight-Lilac Pizza

So you should now be able to work out any time with my new and more creative way of telling the time. Here are some examples:

3.20pm= 2 thirds to Green Sandwidge
10:10pm= 5 sixths to Baby Blue Pizza
6:45am=3 twelths to Pink Cornflakes

Next time someone asks you for the time, answer them with this new way of telling the time but give them no explanation and maybe people will start working it out and it could catch on. Try it I dare you.