> >> Hi, > >> In general: > >> Customizability is very nice, but how to implement that in clean > >> simple way btw? > >> Meaning so that it does not increase > >> too much complexity for those who don't want to customize? > > > >Seems pretty staightforward to me. Have a "Custom" option in > >the "Language & region" -> "Regional Settings" dropdown menu > >that turns all the various settings into dropdown menus > >containing all the options you use elsewhere for that > >particular setting ... and include a time format in that list. > > > >/Mike > > Hi, > > Why do you want the 24 hour clock for UK/US users? Is it just for the > clock application or do you equally strongly need to have 24 hour clock > when file manager shows file timestaps or email shows the received > time(date) field, etc.? > > If you are running the UI in English but living in e.g. Germany you > could also just go to the Control Panel, launch "Language and region" > applet, set your UI to English, your regional settings to Deutchland and > off you go. > > I do not see this as something that would be high enough on our agenda > right now. I use 24 hr clock for everything. I would have thought having a checkbox somewhere to choose time display option would be a fairly standard OS option, my laptops various OS all have the option, as does my phone and blackberry, even my alarm clock and watch does. Peter
