Thanks Fredrick for the advice.
The second two bullet point solutions you mentioned are the area of concern. These folks are keyboard users, steppers and drop-downs can be cumbersome. Especially the drop-down when selecting times like 9am “09:00”, I would need to hit zero 9 times. From: Fredrik Matheson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:51 PM To: Sorensen, Shannon M - MWL Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Entering military time on web In that case, I'd say it's more a case of the users having enjoyed the luxury of entering imprecise data and that it's merely a matter of making them aware of the change to more precise time notation. We use 24-hour time notation here in Norway and I find it far more precise than AM/PM time – I can never figure out whether 12 AM is noon or midnight ;-) You can enter the time in many ways: • one text field for hours and minutes: you'll need a bit of logic to make prevent erroneous input • two text fields, one for hours (max value ≤23) and one for minutes (max value ≤ 59). A common touch is to add steppers to each box, allowing increments, or even better, using the up and down arrows to increase/decrease the number • two drop-downs, for hours and minutes • my personal favorite, the time picker in Lotus Notes, which is one single "drop-down" (not an HTML component but similar in appearance) that includes hours and minutes, the latter in 15 minute increments. It's the best interaction design I've seen for this problem anywhere, and its 15 minute increments aren't much of a limitation in practice. - Fredrik ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
