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I'm an American who chooses to use a 24 hour clock for all my digital ones, anyway, and didn't realize that American assumed anything about time like that. Inst

I'm an American who chooses to use a 24 hour clock for all my digital ones, anyway, and didn't realize that American assumed anything about time like that. Instead, I assumed that it's up to the user's discretion, and they would set their computer settings appropriately (or not at all, since it's probably fine as localized), and in the case of Google, the computer would rely on those localization settings, as it did for "17:30 in Denmark."

Symbiote 9y ago
> I assumed that it's up to the user's discretion, and they would set their computer settings appropriately My computer is configured correctly, but it's rather common for an application (especially a phone app) or website to ignore those settings, or to think it knows better. 04:30 UTC means 04:30 UTC, or 05:30 in Denmark. Not 17:30! The same can happen if I type something like "04:30 Catch flight" into an appointment in my Google Calendar. It is converted into a new appointment "16:30 Catch flight". It's not just Google. "Your Office 365 subscription will automatically renew on 1/19/2018." and the admin interface is a mix of date and time formats.