On 29 Jan 2007, at 10:11, Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com wrote: >>> 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. >> >> That sounds like a horrible hack to me. And I don't live in >> Germany and want a 24 hour clock. > > Not for me running English UI with Finish locales ;) So not a lot of help. > >> And I'm still wondering where this UK = am/pm clock style only >> comes from. > > POSIX locale. Specifications for US/UK say you use 12 hour time. Oh good. Well at least I know who got it wrong. > >>> I do not see this as something that would be high enough on >>> our agenda right now. >> >> For me it's lower priority that getting an email client that >> works so I don't have to online and paying Orange's outrageous >> data charges to read my mail. Having said that, I'd be >> interested to know why the original implementation is broken >> and on what basis the decision was made. > > Nothing is broken, all works as specified ;) > > As I said, we migh look into it, but AFAIK this would mean we either > modify the current locale (really nasty) or create a pseudo-locale > with > the user setting (just nasty). Unless someone has better idea or > understanding of the POSIX locales. Either way, I'd feel we would > be the > only UNIX system doing this (does OSX do it too?). Ideas welcome. > Amusingly, the AM/PM options is not available to me in OSX preference so while it is now 20:49 in 24 notation, I can only get 08:49 not 08:49PM. Which seems to me to be wrong, Andy
