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Posted by André Gillibert on October 17, 2007, 5:57 pm
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Dr J R Stockton wrote:
> In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html message <1192572042.109978.243570
> @q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:00:42,
> tatata9999@gmail.com posted:
>>
>> Thank you both. The initial idea was, if the answer is clear it could
>> eliminate a question for users (input), but I agree, why not give
>> users a choice (between 12 and 24)?
>>
>
> Because it would be pandering to obstinacy and a pointless waste of
> resources - unless your site is specifically aimed at the mentally
> inadequate. Everyone of even approximately normal intelligence can
> understand 24-hour times.
>
The site is centred around date & times.
It's a good idea to let the user choose the format he is most comfortable
with, as he will read thousands dates and times.
Similarly, in France, most clocks, have a button, or an option, to change
from the 24 hour to the 12 hour notation.
People have variable preferences around the world. There's nothing wrong
with giving preference choices.
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Posted by Bergamot on October 17, 2007, 7:54 pm
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Dr J R Stockton wrote:
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> Everyone of even approximately normal intelligence can
> understand 24-hour times.
Using 24-hour times in the U.S. is rare enough so the average person
probably won't know what it is.
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Berg
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Posted by Dr J R Stockton on October 18, 2007, 12:15 pm
Please log in for more thread options In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html message <5nnlkpFivmo9U1@mid.indiv
posted:
>Dr J R Stockton wrote:
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>> Everyone of even approximately normal intelligence can
>> understand 24-hour times.
>
>Using 24-hour times in the U.S. is rare enough so the average person
>probably won't know what it is.
If I had meant "does understand" I would have written that. The
exercise will, or might, do them good.
But surely the vast majority have come across "Military Time" being used
in the movies or on TV?
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Posted by Bergamot on October 19, 2007, 10:23 am
Please log in for more thread options Dr J R Stockton wrote:
> In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html message <5nnlkpFivmo9U1@mid.indiv
> posted:
>>Dr J R Stockton wrote:
>>>
>>> Everyone of even approximately normal intelligence can
>>> understand 24-hour times.
>>
>>Using 24-hour times in the U.S. is rare enough so the average person
>>probably won't know what it is.
>
> If I had meant "does understand" I would have written that.
Perhaps you should be less ambiguous. ;)
> The exercise will, or might, do them good.
That's an optimistic view, I think.
> But surely the vast majority have come across "Military Time" being used
> in the movies or on TV?
Someone not used to 24-hour times may know that is what they're seeing,
but if the goal is to be useful to the visitor, as in appointment
setting, then knowing what time it really is is what matters. No?
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Berg
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Posted by Stephan Bird on October 17, 2007, 4:08 am
Please log in for more thread options On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:38:19 -0400 in 5nklpsFia0ceU1@mid.individual.net,
> tatata9999@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
>> been able to answer the question.
>
> Time format preferences, like date and currency format preferences, are
> generally national in scope, so you'd have to inquire what *countries*
> tend to use 24-hour format. There isn't any reason why the various
> peoples who happen to live in one time zone would share a time format.
Or even, people who live in the same country. Surely this is very much an
individual thing. I, for instance have 24hr clock set up on my PC / watch
etc, yet the radio broadcasts for instance a show billed as 11(am)-1(pm) -
very very rare (to the extent that I can't remember it) that it's billed
as 11-13. Or late evening news is almost always at 10, whereas listing
magazines or newspapers use 24hr format....
Stephan
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Currently in Caernarfon, Wales
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