Re: mutt/1296: iso date/time format by default
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 00:05:02 +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
: The following reply was made to PR mutt/1296; it has been noted by GNATS.
: From: Alain Bench <veronatif@xxxxxxx>
: To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
: Cc:
: Subject: Re: mutt/1296: iso date/time format by default
: Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:47:33 +0200 (CEST)
: Hello Rado,
: On Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 4:02:02 PM +0200, Rado Smiljanic wrote:
: > mutt is not only/ primarily used in US/UK, meaning the am/pm for hours
: > could be changed in favour of more widespread usage (i.e. 24h).
: How much the am/pm thing seems ugly to us, as a default setting it
: is consistent with other defaults and especially the English C locale.
: Anyone using another language has to change this anyway. I think it
: makes sense to keep 12h clock as default.
It's really only an Americanism these days. I'm English, and I, along
with a large number of people, use 24h clock by default.
mutt's AM / PM is wrong anyway. It's '3:15pm' not '03:15pm'; the initial
'0' is dropped in 12h clock (or so I was taught at primary school $mumble
years ago).
And don't get me started on US date format.
: Even out of defaults: In International places where English is
: spoken, I send a custom English attribution with am/pm time.
Personally I hate it.
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