Time zone and 24 hours time format

[tatata9999]

Hi,

What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
been able to answer the question.

Thank you.

[Rik Wasmus]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:25:56 +0200, <ta********@gma il.comwrote:

What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
been able to answer the question.

Outside the USA, almost everyone. Haven't got a full list though.
--
Rik Wasmus

[Harlan Messinger]

ta********@gmai l.com wrote:

Hi,

What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
been able to answer the question.

Time format preferences, like date and currency format preferences, are
generally national in scope, so you'd have to inquire what *countries*
tend to use 24-hour format. There isn't any reason why the various
peoples who happen to live in one time zone would share a time format.

[tatata9999]

On Oct 16, 4:38 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.rem ovet...@comcast .netwrote:

tatata9...@gmai l.com wrote:

Hi,

What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
been able to answer the question.

Time format preferences, like date and currency format preferences, are
generally national in scope, so you'd have to inquire what *countries*
tend to use 24-hour format. There isn't any reason why the various
peoples who happen to live in one time zone would share a time format.

Thank you both. The initial idea was, if the answer is clear it could
eliminate a question for users (input), but I agree, why not give
users a choice (between 12 and 24)?

Great, much appreciated.

[Rob Waaijenberg]

ta********@gmai l.com schreef:

Hi,

What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
been able to answer the question.

Thank you.

How about this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_an...ion_by_country

--
Rob

[tatata9999]

On Oct 16, 6:44 pm, Rob Waaijenberg <robwaaijenb... @hotmail.com>
wrote:

tatata9...@gmai l.com schreef:

Hi,

What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
been able to answer the question.

Thank you.

How about this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_an...ion_by_country

--
Rob

Thanks, Rob, but I still think giving a user a choice is more
flexible.

[Stephan Bird]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:38:19 -0400 in 5n************@ mid.individual. net,
Harlan Messinger <hm************ *******@comcast .netwrote:

ta********@gmai l.com wrote:

>Hi,

What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
been able to answer the question.

Time format preferences, like date and currency format preferences, are
generally national in scope, so you'd have to inquire what *countries*
tend to use 24-hour format. There isn't any reason why the various
peoples who happen to live in one time zone would share a time format.

Or even, people who live in the same country. Surely this is very much an
individual thing. I, for instance have 24hr clock set up on my PC / watch
etc, yet the radio broadcasts for instance a show billed as 11(am)-1(pm) -
very very rare (to the extent that I can't remember it) that it's billed
as 11-13. Or late evening news is almost always at 10, whereas listing
magazines or newspapers use 24hr format....

Stephan

--
Stephan Bird MChem(Hons) AMRSC
Currently in Caernarfon, Wales

[Rik Wasmus]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:08:46 +0200, Stephan Bird
<st************ @mad.scientist. comREMOVEwrote:

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:38:19 -0400 in 5n************@ mid.individual. net,
Harlan Messinger <hm************ *******@comcast .netwrote:

>ta********@gmai l.com wrote:

>>Hi,

What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
been able to answer the question.

Time format preferences, like date and currency format preferences, are
generally national in scope, so you'd have to inquire what *countries*
tend to use 24-hour format. There isn't any reason why the various
peoples who happen to live in one time zone would share a time format.

Or even, people who live in the same country. Surely this is very much an
individual thing. I, for instance have 24hr clock set up on my PC / watch
etc, yet the radio broadcasts for instance a show billed as 11(am)-1(pm)
-
very very rare (to the extent that I can't remember it) that it's billed
as 11-13. Or late evening news is almost always at 10, whereas listing
magazines or newspapers use 24hr format....

Then again, weird difference between written & spoken language. A 24 hour
clock is pretty standard in print here, AM/PM is seldomly used, but
there's close to noone actually calling it 'fourteen' or 'twenty' o'clock,
that's still just 2 and 8.

--
Rik Wasmus

[Ben C]

On 2007-10-17, Rik Wasmus <lu************ @hotmail.comwro te:
[...]

Then again, weird difference between written & spoken language. A 24 hour
clock is pretty standard in print here, AM/PM is seldomly used, but
there's close to noone actually calling it 'fourteen' or 'twenty' o'clock,
that's still just 2 and 8.

In France they do actually say things like "dix-neuf heures" in ordinary
conversation. Perhaps it appeals to their sense of modernism.

In general, the 24 hour clock is useful for displaying time in different
time zones or for things like train times, when the context doesn't
indicate easily whether you mean am or pm.

[Steve Swift]

I, for instance have 24hr clock set up on my PC / watch

etc, yet the radio broadcasts for instance a show billed as 11(am)-1(pm) -
very very rare (to the extent that I can't remember it) that it's billed
as 11-13.

TV Schedules always used to be printed in 24-hour format, but these days
are almost universally printed in 12-hour format with no indication of
am/pm.

Most annoyingly are the TV announcements that say "Coming up at 9
o'clock..." with no mention of whether it is am or pm!

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk