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Re: [PATCH] cy_GB/en_GB: set am/pm in times
On 12 Apr 2012, stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk uttered the following:
>
> On 12 April 2012, at 17:46, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
>> While a person's testimony about his heritage is edifying, it's not
>> actually relevant to locale policies. The locale definitions don't
>> use formats that some hackers who are natives of the locality prefer,
>> no matter how reasonable--nor how popular--those preferences may be.
>> They use the formats officially specified by country governmental
>> standards and the like. Anecdotes about common usage are not apropos.
>> What we need to see are citations of official standards.
>
> Well, I did have my reservations about making that comment, but if you
> told me "here in my country we do it this way" then I'd take it in a
> certain positive spirit.
I think Carlos's attitude of 'if even train station clocks display it in
a particular fashion, then it is probably right' is sensible, and they
do indeed all display the time with a colon, not a full stop. I also
think that if there is contention, or if the information is obscure,
then falling back to national standards makes sense. But in this case
there isn't really contention on time formats: there's just a quirky
format used in certain government publications, and the format everyone
else uses.
So I guess I'm (still) in violent agreement with everyone here (and I
agree completely with Carlos's recent post suggesting a way forward).
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