On 29/01/07, Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com <Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com> wrote: > >On 1/26/07, Karoliina.T.Salminen at nokia.com > ><Karoliina.T.Salminen at nokia.com> wrote: > >> 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.? I'd like 24-hour clock everywhere - as it currently is on my phone, my laptops, my desktops, my servers.... > > 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'm living in Australia. I'm not going to set my regional settings to Deutschland because having a , where I expect a . confuses me. Do you have a solution for me? > > I do not see this as something that would be high enough on our agenda > right now. I don't see why this hasn't been done already. It's been done on everything else I own, even my phones. Perhaps it would help if you could give us some background on why you feel this is such a hard problem to solve. It sounds as though there's been plenty of internal discussion about this - perhaps if we understood the background we'd be less upset, or perhaps even able to offer some solutions. -- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004
