24 hour format and other not useful clock options

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sun Feb 11 17:34:22 UTC 2007


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

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You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the 
beach.




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