I had a Mitsubishi VCR in the mid-80's that had the clock in 24h format. I think there were a couple other brands that did too, simply because they were made in Japan and they didn't want to reconfigure for the US market.
Unfortunately they eventually did, along with making the programming "simpler". When my old VCR started to eat tape in the mid-90's I gave up and got a new one, and haven't even tried to program it since. Nat -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Potts Sent: Monday, 2003 June 23 3:26 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:26189] RE: Bizarre I guess you should have bought a Minolta. I have a Program Back on my 1987 Minolta Maxxum 9000, allowing date and/or time stamping of each exposure (among a huge range of functions, including time-lapse photography, exposure bracketing, etc.). It allows multiple formats for year, month and day (including what is now called the ISO 8601 format). For time, it has only the ISO 8601 format -- hh:mm:ss -- no am and pm. Everything in the owner's manual, including operating temperature range, is metric only. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Han Maenen >Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 22:47 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:26188] Bizarre > > >I bought a Fuijtsu A204 digital camera this weekend. So I had to do the >settings. Time and date. The date could be set in three ways: 1) >YYYY:MM:DD, >2) DD:MM:YYYY and 3) MM:DD:YYYY. I set it to 1. Then came time. It is >in AM/PM format and I can NOT change this format! > >YYYY:MM:DD AM/PM > >Doesn't that look grand! >Apart from this blatant and bizarre disregard for international >standardization, all other information on screen (a 45 mm one) and in >the manual was in metric. > >Han >Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
