She was nervously full of life, and kept on asking the time.

Other popular uses include playing songs, finding cinema times or asking the time.

Then I found that he had been asking the time.

After a moment Jean said, as quietly as if he were asking the time of day:

"Take off the shirt," he said, voice as calm as if asking the time.

"He's that restless," said the clerk's wife; " asking the time every three or four minutes."

(The inevitable question, always put with as much simplicity and directness as if one were asking the time of day.)