I did a <quit iCal >after each of those trials , but not a total system restart, but the changes did not take place immediately as changes do in the regular date- time and clock changes that change as you click. I had to quit iCal and then by relaunching it, those odd changes appeared.
Another way now to waste my time, just because of my "wanting to know it all" virtue/vice. Thanks for helping me out, at least for helping me to not put all my computers on tigger, he seems a bit on the wild side like Christopher Robin's tigger toy. Marta On Aug 27, 2006, at 2:57 pm, R. D. Preston wrote: > Does the system require a restart for iCal to take hold on this? > That's the only other thing I did after I reset the date & time, > and saw the mil.time in iCal. - Out of ideas. - > Russ Preston > > On Aug 27, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Marta Edie wrote: >> Had done the same, did it again, customized , fiddle fiddle >> fiddle- got it to show : a) nothing in the time slot, second, >> third try then 00 till up to ten , then 1, 12, then 13 , then 2,3, >> 4, etc. and a variety of numbers, but none in sequence and more >> frust! >> Tiger advances in some things, left out many things the regular >> guy might want. I for one would be at a loss with Garageband and >> all those widgets ---- most of them playthings for young ones! >> Marta >> >> On Aug 27, 2006, at 1:34 pm, R. D. Preston wrote: >>> :: mac mini, osx10.4.7, ical 2.0.3 :: >>> Did nothing to iCal. >>> [Date & Time] prefs pane > >>> [Date & Time] tab > >>> [Open International] button > >>> [Formats] tab > >>> [Customize...] button > (bottom one, I think) >>> Fiddle - fiddle - fiddle! ...or not. >>> Russ Preston >>> >>> On Aug 27, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Marta Edie wrote: >>>> Now, how in the world did you get the iCal settings in iCal to >>>> 24 hours - military time( I suppose in this country we call it >>>> thus - we must be the only region in the world to only use 24 >>>> hour settings in the military?) -- But back to iCal. What >>>> version do you use ? I have 3.9 on two computers and I can set >>>> the 24 hour in iCal without a hitch, however, my iCal in my >>>> 10.4.7 just balks. In my iCal preferences I can't do it, and my >>>> international settings and date and time settings are all in 24 >>>> hour time. Right now my menu bar show the 24 hour setting , >>>> 13:00, and Victoria just announced 13 hours in her lovely voice, >>>> too, Do tell me how you got your tiger 10.4.7 to show this in >>>> your iCal? It is driving me nuts. >>>> Somebody wanted to know date in the menu bar. If you click the >>>> time you get a grayed out date in the pull down menu. That is >>>> another thing. In my Panther I can set the date along with the >>>> time in the menu bar. >>>> Marta >>>> >>>> On Aug 27, 2006, at 6:43 AM, R. D. Preston wrote: >>>>> Okay, now, Marta; ya got me curious with that one. >>>>> I had to fiddle with my settings "just to see if...", and now I >>>>> have changed >>>>> my time settings to exactly what you wanted, with my iCal >>>>> showing 24 hr >>>>> (military) time, and I can't change it back. >>>>> Hrrruummph. !!! : ) >>>>> Russ Preston >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 26, 2006, at 19:00 , Marta Edie wrote: >>>>>> And to add, my Google calendar gives me the 24 hour version. I >>>>>> ust be something missing somewhere in this Tiger iCal >>>>>> Marta >>>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 26, 2006, at 6:25 PM, Lee Larson wrote: >>>>>>> On Aug 26, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Lee Larson wrote: >>>>>>>>> Is there a way to show hours in Universal time rather than >>>>>>>>> in Am Pm format. This is for Tiger on my iBook G4 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Open the Date & Time preference pane and click on the map as >>>>>>>> close as you can to Greenwich, England when you set your >>>>>>>> time zone. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> On rereading your question, it occurred to me you were >>>>>>> perhaps looking for a 24-hour format instead of Universal >>>>>>> Time. To do this, click on the clock tab in the Date &Time >>>>>>> preference pane and select the 24 hour clock option. >>>>>> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060827/556ee74b/attachment.html
