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Re: libc-alpha Digest of: get.27331
- From: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>
- To: Stroller <stroller at stellar dot eclipse dot co dot uk>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Keld dot Simonsen at dkuug dot dk, pablo at mandrakesoft dot com, Petr Baudis <pasky at suse dot cz>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:30:52 +0100
- Subject: Re: libc-alpha Digest of: get.27331
- References: <1334228770.29913.ezmlm@sourceware.org><6637AF75-08D3-463F-B9ED-0E3FA9EC1581@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
On 12 Apr 2012, stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk told this:
> Anecdata: I'm about as British as they come - English father, Scottish
> mother, my father's family can easily be traced back a couple of
> hundred years, the school I went to was founded with the involvement
> of the king in the 1552. I would *always* write the present time as
> 12:15pm. Give this statement as much or as little value as you wish.
This is in part associated with when your earliest schooling happened, I
think. There was a period in the early-to-mid-80s when they were
teaching the 24-hour clock in preference to the 12-hour clock,
apparently out of some belief that it was more metric than 12-hour
clock, and despite the 12-hour faces of actual analogue clocks. So some
of us use 24-hour timings preferentially (I do, for instance).
12-hour time is definitely more common though. I'm not really sure you
can say that either is a characteristic of the locale by this point.
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