[Remind-Fans] Remind using 12-hour time?

[J.P. Tuttle]

R. Wood wrote:
> Allegedly, on Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:27:38PM -0500, Paul Pelzl stated:
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
>>> J.P. Tuttle wrote:
>>>
>>>  > Oh.  Support for input in 12-hour would definitely be a useful feature.
>>>
>>>  Erhmm... really?  How would you write it?
>>>
>>>  REM AT 1:00pm ...
>>>
>>>  I guess I could modify the parser to look for a suffix "a..." or
>>>  "p..." after a time and adjust appropriately.  I'm used to 24h
>>>  clock so it's never been an issue for me. :-)
>> I have a mildly negative feeling about this.  If Remind uses *only*
>> 24-hour time, then there is never any ambiguity.  If 12-hour times are
>> supported, then the user has to be extra careful to always encode the
>> AT timespec properly.  You can't even reliably drop the "a..." suffix
>> because 12-hour time is not 0-indexed (e.g. 12:30am -> 00:30).
>>
>> I'm a programmer, and I realize that this sometimes gives me a twisted
>> worldview, but frankly 12-hour time sucks.  And I say this as an
>> American who uses 12-hour time in casual use.
>>
>> Paul
> 
> I tend to agree.  It's easy enough to adapt to 24-hour time I think
> (I've done it :-) so why complicate the software with non-essential
> requirements?

Shouldn't software be written to accomodate the way the user works, not 
the other way round?

-- J.P.