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Re: [PATCH] cy_GB/en_GB: set am/pm in times
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On 12 Apr 2012, stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk stated:
> On 12 April 2012, at 13:30, Nix wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Nevertheless, as per my comment 5 to the bug report, if a user is
> calling `date %r`, the user is explicitly requesting the date in
> 12-hour format (as per the manpage) and thus some kind of AM or PM
> indicator is necessitated.
Agreed.
> If the US LOCALE has AM and PM, so should the British.
Yes, since we do use the 12-hour format -- except (as you said), in
lowercase. (Though, a slight caveat: that the US locale uses 12-hour
format is no reason for a different locale to use the same format. What
matters is whether the people of that locale use that format
themselves -- which they do. But really I am in violent agreement here,
so this will be my last message in this thread.)
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