Allegedly, on Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:27:38PM -0500, Paul Pelzl stated: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: > > J.P. Tuttle wrote: > > > > > Oh. Support for input in 12-hour would definitely be a useful feature. > > > > Erhmm... really? How would you write it? > > > > REM AT 1:00pm ... > > > > I guess I could modify the parser to look for a suffix "a..." or > > "p..." after a time and adjust appropriately. I'm used to 24h > > clock so it's never been an issue for me. :-) > > I have a mildly negative feeling about this. If Remind uses *only* > 24-hour time, then there is never any ambiguity. If 12-hour times are > supported, then the user has to be extra careful to always encode the > AT timespec properly. You can't even reliably drop the "a..." suffix > because 12-hour time is not 0-indexed (e.g. 12:30am -> 00:30). > > I'm a programmer, and I realize that this sometimes gives me a twisted > worldview, but frankly 12-hour time sucks. And I say this as an > American who uses 12-hour time in casual use. > > Paul
I tend to agree. It's easy enough to adapt to 24-hour time I think (I've done it :-) so why complicate the software with non-essential requirements? Just my $0.02, Raymond -- "Be Nice, or Leave - By Order of the Management" (Sign above door, Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield) GPG Fingerprint: 2E4D 8605 DD48 E80F F893 1C02 B65D 86D9 3B3C 0E03 Encrypted E-mail Preferred | Free Tibet! Bush-whacked 2004! Try to relax and enjoy the Chaos :-) _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
