[wp-hackers] Changing the clock format in Write > Post

[Chris]

So is this the ultimate dumbing down of education? I thought primary 
schools still teach "add" and "take-away"!!

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
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>> And US users should understand that format just fine.. It's military
>> time. Pretty obvious, really.
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> It's not that US users don't know about 24 hour time, but many people are
> not used to working with it.  Personally, I am fine translating it, but
> plenty of other users, like my wife, are not so good with math.  I hate to
> think that normal (people who aren't good at math) users would have to pull
> out a calculator to figure out what time it's set at.  That's not terribly
> usable.  My wife had a hard enough time reading the tube schedules while we
> were in London.
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