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


On 12 Apr 2012, Petr Baudis spake thusly:

>   t_fmt_ampm "%l:%M:%S %P %Z"
>
> 	So shall we use %l:%M:%S or %l.%M:S (i.e. hh:mm:ss or hh.mm:ss)?
> 	It seems that available online references suggest the latter
> 	but discussion suggests the former, though rather implicitly.
> 	I think more online sources would be good regarding this.

Curious. What available online references are those? Note that Hansard
in particular is probably a bad UK government source to use, as it is
itself a publication of long standing with notably quirky traditions in
many areas of typesetting. We don't really want glibc's locale
traditions to end up using formats that have been largely obsolete since
the 1700s :)

For what little it means (and to confirm your existing anecdotes with a
little more anecdata), I have never seen a digital time representation
using anything but a colon between the hour and minute part. If a
full-stop is used, it is used between seconds and parts of seconds,
viz: hh:mm:ss.ss.

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