[nvda] NVDA and clock announcement

Hello all. I just had a quick question. When pressing NVDA+F12 to listen to the 
time NVDA seems to have a problem announcing anywhere from the hour to the 
first ten minutes. For example from 11:00 to 11:09 it says " eleven colon xx," 
where xx is the minute. After 09 it works fine. Is there any way to fix this? 
this is minor but I'm not sure how to put it in the speech dictionaries, 
because I'm not sure if I can use wildcards. One other thing. I am using 
eloquence with NVDA. When arrowing around windows explorer whenever I highlight 
 a file eloquence botches the announcement of last modified date and time. 
Instead of saying, "last modified, date/time without the slashes, it replies 
"questionmark   month slash questionmark day  slash questionmark questionmark 
year, time." And instead of  reading the date like it's supposed, e.g. january 
first, 2009 it says only 1/1/2009. in addition to the questionmarks and slashes 
I wrote. This is not a complaint, but is there any way to fix this? Can it be 
done through the speech dictionary  or does there need to be some code changes? 
One last thing, why does espeak pronounce slash as stroke and exclaimation mark 
as bang? It's a little odd to me. Not a complaint, just curious if it can be 
changed if I want NVDA to pronounce punctuation marks differently. I don't 
think it's possible since I remember  hearing somewhere that NVDA has it's own 
code for handling  punctuation.
Thanks a lot for any help
Kendell clark

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