Re: New EPG and kids and more


"Malcolm H" <malcolmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:M9NUl.27072$oi1.18816@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Ian F." <wowfabgroovy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:78hfo8F1m4lapU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Malcolm H" <malcolmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fCLUl.268019$Ec5.267951@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The only thing which really annoys me is the continuing use of the 12 hour clock. Surely the completely unambiguous 24 hour clock could have been a 'Settings' option?

This is the UK, not continental Europe! ;-)

Ian

My inference from your comment is that you believe the UK to be a land of
confusion and ambiguity (and I would not disagree!).

This planet rotates on its axis to create a complete day/night cycle every
24 hours. The arbitrary definition of noon as 12:00pm and midnight as
12:00am results in ludicrous ambiguities and confusion. To set a 10 minute
manual recording from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after 01:00am the
settings are:

Start time 12:55am
Stop time 01:05am

Is 01:05 minus 12:55 really 00:10 ?? Confusing or what?

If we could get this right then perhaps we should start on properly
eliminating pounds and ounces. Then all that remains is to convert the
Americans, but perhaps this is too difficult to contemplate!



I run a "global data operation" and my policy is to use GMT (Winter / Universal Time) not BST for all time data even within the UK.

12H time gets even more daft once one takes into account the multiple time zones and that some objects will be moving across longitudes and latitudes!

Scientist/engineers like myself have no problem with 24H (GMT/UTC) but I see even people in IT depts quote stuff in local 12 hour time often without the AM/PM qualifier.

Mind you, if I quoted my SOP of UTC most ordinary people would think WTF as it happens.




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