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Yeah, as in, if you take a quarter of an hour (15 minutes) from 10, it's 9:45.
They also use minus ten, minus twenty or even minus twenty-five.
Ten hours minus twenty-five is 9:35.
Ten hours minus twenty is 9:40.
Ten hours minus (a/the) quarter is 9:45.
Ten hours minus ten is 9:50.
I find it confusing and never got used to this system. It feels old fashioned and it's not even faster to say. But it's still pretty common while being informal.