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

[Paul Pelzl]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, David F. Skoll <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> 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