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


On 12 April 2012, at 13:30, Nix wrote:

> On 12 Apr 2012, stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk told this:
>> Anecdata: I'm about as British as they come - English father, Scottish
>> mother, my father's family can easily be traced back a couple of
>> hundred years, the school I went to was founded with the involvement
>> of the king in the 1552. I would *always* write the present time as
>> 12:15pm. Give this statement as much or as little value as you wish.
> 
> 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.

If the US LOCALE has AM and PM, so should the British.

Stroller.


PS: message subject line corrected, now. Apologies for my original omission. 



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