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Re: [PATCH] cy_GB/en_GB: set am/pm in times


Chiming in as .uk born and bred...

On 12 Apr 2012, Carlos O'Donell said this:
> The problem I see here is that both the UK Parliament and the UK
> Government website use `%A %e %B' (Wednesday 14 Apil) and never `%a %b
> %e' (Wed Apr 14). Even `The Sun' uses `%a %e %b', which is just a
> shortening of `%A %e %B'.

All these are common, depending on how much space is available.

The only date-format rule I can think of that is universally respected
in the UK is that dates are always dd/mm/yy[yy], never mm/dd or
yyyy-mm-dd (much though some purists among us might wish for the
latter). I've also seen dd-mm-yy[yy], but that seems less common to me
than the slashed variation.

>                           In addition I see uses of `am' and 'pm'
> lowercase, and `%H.%M' not `%H:%M', on government documents (I'm
> willing to ignore these as government quirks).

'am' and 'pm' are definitely more common here than 'AM' and 'PM', though
the latter does appear (mostly on older documents).

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