On Monday 29 January 2007 02:11:09 am 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 ;) > > >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. > > >>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. > > Br, > > --jakub OSX and windwos. allow US/UK users 24hour clocks. As does my Linux desktop. James > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
