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I live in the US. Most companies and organizations here use 12 hour time, so I use it too. The work hour selection is using 24 hour time. It would be a nice U

I live in the US. Most companies and organizations here use 12 hour time, so I use it too. The work hour selection is using 24 hour time. It would be a nice UX improvement to present the time using the user's current locale settings.

sneak 5y ago
It is all of our duty when working in/with America/ns to use 24h time as often as possible. Same goes for metric. Americans call it "military time" because the US military uses it. I like to remind people that the entire rest of the world uses it, too, and that 12h time should just be called "American civilian time".
- lupin_sansei 5y ago
  This isn’t correct. I’ve lived in UK, Australia, and Japan and all those places use 12 hour time.
  - iggldiggl 5y ago
    Although in the UK at least, railways universally use the 24-hour clock, thereby regularly exposing a larger fraction of the population to it (in Australia a quick search seems to indicate that only NSW uses 24 hour time for its timetables?).
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- reaperducer 5y ago
  I like to remind people that the entire rest of the world uses it So the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, most of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Malta, Egypt, Mexico, Nepal, and the Philippines aren't part of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock
  - sneak 5y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_th... > Both the 24-hour and 12-hour notations are used in the United Kingdom > The 24-hour notation is used in timetables and on most digital clocks, but 12-hour notation is still widely used in ordinary life. The 24-hour notation is used more often than in North America – transport timetables use it exclusively, as do most legal documents – but not as commonly as in much of the non-English-speaking world.
- reaperducer 5y ago
  It is all of our duty when working in/with America/ns to use 24h time as often as possible. It is all of our duties to learn about, respect, and embrace cultures that are different from our own. Just as I'm not going to take a job in France and tell the bakery how to make baguettes, I don't expect someone from France to come to the United States and be critical of the clock on the wall. The technosphere is too often all about making the world standardized, bureaucratic, and homogenized. In other words: boring. I'd rather live in a world with many different cultures that I can learn about and explore. Who cares if it doesn't fit neatly into something that works for a computer? They're supposed to work for us, not the other way around.
hhebbo 5y ago
Great feedback! I'll add this as an option, so users can use either 24h or 12h. Thanks!

sneak 5y ago

It is all of our duty when working in/with America/ns to use 24h time as often as possible. Same goes for metric. Americans call it "military time" because the US military uses it. I like to remind people that the entire rest of the world uses it, too, and that 12h time should just be called "American civilian time".

lupin_sansei 5y ago
This isn’t correct. I’ve lived in UK, Australia, and Japan and all those places use 12 hour time.
- iggldiggl 5y ago
  Although in the UK at least, railways universally use the 24-hour clock, thereby regularly exposing a larger fraction of the population to it (in Australia a quick search seems to indicate that only NSW uses 24 hour time for its timetables?).
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reaperducer 5y ago
I like to remind people that the entire rest of the world uses it So the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, most of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Malta, Egypt, Mexico, Nepal, and the Philippines aren't part of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock
- sneak 5y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_th... > Both the 24-hour and 12-hour notations are used in the United Kingdom > The 24-hour notation is used in timetables and on most digital clocks, but 12-hour notation is still widely used in ordinary life. The 24-hour notation is used more often than in North America – transport timetables use it exclusively, as do most legal documents – but not as commonly as in much of the non-English-speaking world.
reaperducer 5y ago
It is all of our duty when working in/with America/ns to use 24h time as often as possible. It is all of our duties to learn about, respect, and embrace cultures that are different from our own. Just as I'm not going to take a job in France and tell the bakery how to make baguettes, I don't expect someone from France to come to the United States and be critical of the clock on the wall. The technosphere is too often all about making the world standardized, bureaucratic, and homogenized. In other words: boring. I'd rather live in a world with many different cultures that I can learn about and explore. Who cares if it doesn't fit neatly into something that works for a computer? They're supposed to work for us, not the other way around.

hhebbo 5y ago

Great feedback! I'll add this as an option, so users can use either 24h or 12h. Thanks!