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Now, wait a minute - 10/25/2002 11:55:12 PM   
pasternakski


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Status: offline 		The clock on the forums is now all jacked up. It reflects my local time, which is Z minus 8, but gives it as Zulu (as 0949Z). This is, obviously incorrect. How and why did this get changed? It was fine before, showing my current, actual time in a.m.-p.m. format. Now, it makes no sense whatever.

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- 10/26/2002 12:10:21 AM   
Jim1954

 

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Status: offline 		It is now in military time, which would be fine, but what is the z for?

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My bust - 10/26/2002 12:12:53 AM   
Paul Vebber


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Status: offline 		someone suggested as we are a military oriented bunch, to use a more military time/date format...in reconfiugring it I screwed the offset up...

Z is the timezone identizier for 'ZULU' or GMT.

should be fixed now!

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- 10/26/2002 12:15:06 AM   
Jim1954

 

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Status: offline 		Mine still shows the Z, even after logging out and back in. Probably a wonderful MSglitch that will make you re-boot the server.

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- 10/26/2002 12:18:38 AM   
Paul Vebber


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Status: offline 		No I'm playing with it right now - I took that off since it gets set to local.

Hey every so often i want to play with the toys ;)

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- 10/26/2002 12:21:07 AM   
Jim1954

 

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Status: offline 		Much better Paul. You think you could put a space between the day and month and the month and year to help these old eyes out?

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- 10/26/2002 12:21:22 AM   
Paul Vebber


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Status: offline 		Ok I Took the "Z" off and it should be showing correctly now and reference correctly to other local time zones...

Sorry about that!:o

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- 10/26/2002 12:22:00 AM   
Paul Vebber


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Status: offline 		Hows 'dat?

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- 10/26/2002 12:22:41 AM   
Jim1954

 

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Status: offline 		You Da MAN!!!

:D

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Re: My bust - 10/26/2002 1:01:26 AM   
CCB


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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Paul Vebber
[B]someone suggested as we are a military oriented bunch, to use a more military time/date format [/B][/QUOTE]

How about an Olive Drab background then? ;)

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- 10/26/2002 1:14:46 AM   
Jim1954

 

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Status: offline 		Didn't gmenfan post something about variable backgrounds when the forum acquired it's new look? What's up with that Paul? Might as well play with one more toy, eh?

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- 10/26/2002 2:32:35 AM   
pasternakski


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Status: offline 		Thanks, Paul - that was fun (at least for me)...

but - but - but Paul, if you use the 24-hour clock, you can't use a.m. and p.m. at the same time ... there just ain't no "1353 PM."

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- 10/26/2002 2:43:32 AM   
Paul Vebber


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Status: offline 		Hmmm now how'd that critter get in thar...

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- 10/26/2002 2:49:11 AM   
Paul Vebber


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Status: offline 		OK Who's playing in here too ;) Marc, is that you muckin with my military comunicator style dates :D

I got how it should be! No more playin :cool:

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- 10/26/2002 4:08:42 AM   
Fallschirmjager


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Status: offline 		ARGG!

Change it back..I dont want to sit and have to think what time it is.

Is ther an option to change back on my preference page?

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- 10/26/2002 5:35:19 AM   
pasternakski


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Status: offline 		Hee hee hee ... Fallschirmjaeger, I just KNEW somebody was going to make this post. Thanks for reassuring me in my understanding of human nature.

But I agree with you ... it wasn't broke, so why did we fix it?

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- 10/26/2002 7:29:24 AM   
Fred98


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Status: offline 		If it read 15:26 I could handle that.

But can't handle 1526

But my preference is civilian style - 3:26 pm

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- 10/26/2002 9:49:41 AM   
Les_the_Sarge_9_1

 

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Status: offline 		24 hours in a day and I like to know exactly which one it is myself heheh.

I say keep 24 hour time.

Oh and the army isn't the only people that like it eh, in my house that was railroad time.

Of course being "retired" I have only two times that count, daytime and nighttime (and they are easy to distinguish generally hehe).

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- 10/27/2002 8:58:25 AM   
pasternakski


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Status: offline 		Okay.

UV version 2.0 isn't here yet.

PW version 3.2 is a long way off.

WITP won't be here until at least next summer, and maybe not until toward the end of the year.

EiA is still just a gleam in daddy's eye.

What can I bitch about in the meantime?

TIME! Look, there ain't no "0629 PM."

Let's revisit our primary school learning. When using the 12-hour a.m. and p.m. scheme, times are reported in accordance with the following example:

12:01 p.m. (note the colon and the fact that "post meridian" is in lower case with periods - the same applies to a.m.).

One other thing: "Saturday 1201 PM 26 Oct 02" would be far closer to standard usage as "12:01 p.m. Saturday Oct. 26, 2002" in my book.

Not to mention easier to read.

Pedantically yours,

P.

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