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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: jens@lemming0.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de
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Subject: Re: display-time on tty
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de> writes:

Jens> OK OK. Here is your am-pm. Funny americans.

For most things, English and the U.S. do things the simple way.  am-pm
and the month/day/year order are 2 examples of the opposite -
i.e. entirely inferior to the obvious alternatives.

But even the Europeans have the hour hand go around the clock face
twice a day - no one has tried to buck the trend and create a true
24-hour clock with one revolution per day.

Martin

