R. Wood wrote: > 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?
Shouldn't software be written to accomodate the way the user works, not the other way round? -- J.P. _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
