You ought to tell Debian that (though I'm surprised schools don't teach 24 hours there). What fehlix is proposing is that, rather than maintaining our own list of where 24-hour is considered sacrilege, we should use the Debian locale info to avoid duplicating efforts.m_pav wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:20 pmNo for the 24-hour clock in NZ, Au can have it but not here. I think of the thousands of people I have served, only a handful use the 24 hour clock. We do not like calling 5:20PM 17:20, it just doesn't make any sense around here. Schools still teach the 12 hour clock, so that way it must stay.fehlix wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2019 11:22 am Perhaps, I may translate this for other reading this: We shall stick to the default time representation of those countries locale like en_AU and en_NZ, which have both 12h and 24h, and use Debian's default time format, which is 24h-clock for en_AU and en_NZ and for other like en_US, en_CA, el_GR ... the default 12h would also be used. The advantage of sticking to the default, would be for any clock a user might choose the default would be in place according to the locale LC_TIME default.
Otherwise we would have to many different time display formats (e.g. at the Login screen, at the panel (orage-clock, xfce-datetime, Conky clock).
Those who want 12 hours can select 12 hours and same for 24 hours, so it's nothing to fuss over. So either we (a) Stick to H:mm(:ss) being the default, or (b) Use whatever Debian uses. There may be a country that likes to put leading zeros in front of the time.
From what I know, antiX uses (a) with 24 hour as the default, and doesn't even bother looking at the LC_TIME default.
