On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:12:09 +0000, Billy Ashton wrote: >And in that "special" US format, I am surprised at how many people think >12:00 AM is noon instead of midnight...I can see how that is much >clearer! > Actually, noon is 12:00M.
(John M.:) >>>. . . >>> I was forced to change it to the "US standard" of mm/dd/yy hh:ms:ss xM >>> (x==A or P) because nobody understood that format and it was too difficult >>> for them to understand. This was IT internal only. > Should we try dating our checks in ISO 8601? https://xkcd.com/1179/ Once, in the week before the DST boundary, I received an invitation to a meeting the week after. It specified both local and GMT. They disagreed by one hour. I submitted a trouble ticket. WAD: Generated by a Microsoft utility; not amenable to change. And the format was something like: "05:30PM GMT". Leading zero + AM/PM notation + GMT? I needed to read it several times. What notation does your operator's console display? I keep my computer, phone, and wristwatch displaying 24-hour. But I can't train myself not to mentally convert to PM. Nor to think in SI. Joke; in a builders' supply store: "I'd like to buy about fifty feet of plastic pipe." "We deal in metric units now." (after some mental arithmetic) "OK, then, fifteen meters." "Do you want 1/2" or 3/4"?" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
