I bought a large-screen (90 cm CRT) Mitsubishi TV and top-of-the-line Mitsubishi VCR (S-VHS) in the late 1980s. Both had am/pm only. (The TV has a on-screen-displayable digital clock.)
When the playback head on the Mitsubishi VCR gave out (and replacement parts were no longer available), I bought the top-of-the-line JVC VCR as a replacement. Again, just am/pm on the clock. However, as I record quite a few programs, I learned to program it the first day. It's actually fairly intuitive, now that on-screen menus are the standard approach. The Mitsubishi had on-screen programming, too. The VCR I had before the Mitsubishi didn't even have digital tuning and was only programmable via the front panel. I don't mind them having am/pm available as an optional mode. I just object to having no choice in the matter. However, I don't lose any sleep over it. <g> I'm now a DISH network subscriber. The network-synchronized clock for both my satellite receivers is am/pm only. Finally, we have caller-ID units on all our phones. You guessed it -- am/pm only. (I almost forgot the AT&T digital answering machine -- am/pm time stamping only.) At least our heating/air conditioning thermostat is set to both 24 hour time and degrees Celsius (although the factory setting is am/pm and degrees Fahrenheit).. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: Nat Hager III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 14:58 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'U.S. Metric Association' >Subject: RE: [USMA:26189] RE: Bizarre > > >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 > > > > >
