AM/PM Redundancy

[kriskd]

I'm wondering if anyone has ever noticed this....

I noted on the board index that the time of the last post is in military time, yet still has the AM/PM label.  Isn't that a bit redundant? 

[Leonidas]

Have not noticed

But it makes little difference to me as I just automatically recalculate all times to 24 hours

[Taf]

I think you can set to clock to AM/PM or 24 hr?

[kriskd]

I think you can set to clock to AM/PM or 24 hr?

Are you referring to a message board setting/preference?

[Lisa]

i had never noticed it before...

[Lisa]

right you can change this in your profile but it takes some working out

in look and layout preference you can change the time format

The following characters are recognized in the format string:
  %a - abbreviated weekday name
  %A - full weekday name
  %b - abbreviated month name
  %B - full month name
  %d - day of the month (01 to 31)
  %D* - same as %m/%d/%y
  %e* - day of the month (1 to 31)
  %H - hour using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23)
  %I - hour using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12)
  %m - month as a number (01 to 12)
  %M - minute as a number
  %p - either "am" or "pm" according to the given time
  %R* - time in 24 hour notation
  %S - second as a decimal number
  %T* - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
  %y - 2 digit year (00 to 99)
  %Y - 4 digit year
  %Z - time zone or name or abbreviation
  %% - a literal '%' character

therefore %I:%M%p %A %B %Y
gives you
09:16PM Tuesday September 2005

eh voila...

[Lisa]

actually it should be

%I:%M%p %A %d %B %Y

i forgot the date....

[RojBlake]

24 hr time is fine by me

[dogsmum]

 I dont take an awful lot of notice of time/date

[Mojo]

Cool!