[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #6233: Deskbar no longer able to show 24-hour clock
- From: "jstressman" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:52:30 -0000
#6233: Deskbar no longer able to show 24-hour clock
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Reporter: Disreali | Owner: pulkomandy
Type: bug | Status: reopened
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Preferences/Time & Date | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Changes (by jstressman):
* status: closed => reopened
* component: Preferences/Locale => Preferences/Time & Date
* version: R1/alpha2 => R1/Development
* resolution: fixed =>
Comment:
I don't know who thought it was a good idea to remove the 24 hour clock
option (which was removed in hrev37243), but this most definitely should
be an option **not** tied to locale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock
// The 24-hour clock is a convention of time keeping in which the day
runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours, indicated by
the hours passed since midnight, from 0 to 23. This system is the most
commonly used time notation in the world today. It is the international
standard notation of time (ISO 8601). In the practice of medicine, the
24-hour clock is generally used in documentation of care as it prevents
any ambiguity as to when events occurred in a patient's medical history.
It is popularly referred to as military time or astronomical time in the
United States, Canada, and a handful of other countries where the 12-hour
clock is still dominant.
It is not only the international standard, but it is widely used even in
countries like the United States for military time, science, medicine,
etc.
Note specifically this part:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#Military_time
In part it states // "The 24-hour clock is commonly used there only in
some specialist areas (**military, aviation, navigation, tourism,
meteorology, astronomy, computing, logistics, emergency services,
hospitals**), where the ambiguities of the 12-hour notation are deemed too
inconvenient, cumbersome, or outright dangerous, with the military's use
being the most famous example." //
So while it isn't the general "standard" in places like the US, it is
still very widely used in numerous fields where more unambiguous time
keeping is required.
Asserting that people in the US can't use 24hr time without pretending
they're in a different country was a mistake.
(All that is aside from it being odd to begin with that it was deemed a
good idea to tell people in the US etc that they simply couldn't use 24hr
notation even if they wanted to.)
This definitely needs to be put back in.
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