What happened to the 12 hour AM/PM format for time adjustments? It worked well for over 45 years for me. Why remove the option?
Jim
Matthias Clasen wrote:
Jim Cornette wrote:
What happened to the 12 hour AM/PM format for time adjustments? It worked well for over 45 years for me. Why remove the option?
This was caused by using an svn snapshot (HAVE_LANGINFO_H was missing from config.h.in). Fixed now.
Thanks!
I am not used to the 24 hr format and rather like the 12 hour AM/PM format. I checked the help and it said something regarding the language selection hiding this feature. I have English USA selected, so it should be available. I'm glad it was just the LANGINFO_H missing problem and not intentional.
24 hour format is not totally useless, I just find it distracting.
Jim
Jim Cornette wrote:
24 hour format is not totally useless, I just find it distracting.
Maybe it seems to be "useless" and "distracting" to you. But you should be aware that almost all countries in the world are actually using that 24 hour time notation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock
Regards
Richard Körber wrote:
Jim Cornette wrote:
24 hour format is not totally useless, I just find it distracting.
Maybe it seems to be "useless" and "distracting" to you. But you should be aware that almost all countries in the world are actually using that 24 hour time notation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock
Regards
I realize that a lot of countries use the 24 hr format instead of the 12 hr AM/PM format as well as the metric system. I was for the metric system and phonics back in the school days but became accustomed to the other US hold-outs and am used to the 12 HR format.
Really the only choices with the language problem is for Unix and Internet time, which I have no idea of the value. There was no choice for 12 or 24 hr format as is the normal setup for selecting time.
Through the configuration editor all the choices had a schema error and it is not possible to even change the settings there.
Sorry for the insulting tone of the message. 24 hr, Unix and Internet time might have functional value. I just prefer the customary 12 hour AM/PM format.
Jim
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 12:34:22PM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
Sorry for the insulting tone of the message. 24 hr, Unix and Internet time might have functional value. I just prefer the customary 12 hour AM/PM format.
While we're gripping, I want to complain about "AM" and "PM" as the only options. I'm used to using AP Style, and the correct forms are "a.m." and "p.m.".