24 hour clock?

[fff]

I read something about some games having the time shown using the 24-hour system? Is this a setting or something I can change? I'm a (former) military brat, so grew up using the 24 hour clock system, but my game uses civvy time (I'm in Australia, so presumably we got the US version...?)

I'd much prefer to have 24 hour time.... any chance?

[LK]

Someone will give you an answer at 0800 hours.

[fff]

That was two and a half hours ago! 

[J. M. Pescado]

If you want your game in military time, you need to set it to English UK, instead of English US. A registry patch for switching the two is here. Be warned that converting your game in midstream can have funny effects on your existing lots.

[Ancient Sim]

Well, I have the UK version and I downloaded the UK patch thinking it would correct all the spellings I couldn't find in SimPE, but it didn't.  Seemed like I corrected nothing really then. 

[LK]

That was two and a half hours ago! 

No, two hours ago was 1900ish.  Or 1800ish.  Or 20-something-ish.  Come to think of it, who cares?

[fff]

Thank you, El Presidente - off to d/l now - although most of my lots already have weird crap happening at any given time of the (Sim)day, so nothing unusual there..... 

[Marvin Kosh]

Amazing.  I had no idea there was such a difference between versions.  I suppose that the 24-hour clock is more widely used in Europe though.

[veilchen]

Amazing.  I had no idea there was such a difference between versions.  I suppose that the 24-hour clock is more widely used in Europe though.

It is the way we tell time officially. However, we (in Germany) don't say its 14hundred o'clock, we write it as 14:00 and say its 14 o'clock. When  it's rather obvious that it is 2 o'clock in the afternoon as opposed to 2 o'clock in the morning, we do use the simple form and say its 2 o'clock instead of 14, just as the U.S. population does not use the a.m. and p.m. while conversing when its painfully obvious.

G.

[Oddysey]

France is the same way. For school and train schedules and such, 24:00 time is used, but in most conversation, 12:00 is used unless there could be some confusion. A very reasonable method, too, since you don't have to spend hours pondering what exactly those abominable acronyms actually mean. PM? AM? Who comes up with this stuff? It means something like "post" and "before" in Latin. Demented!

[Marvin Kosh]

I looked them up in Dictionary:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=post%20meridiem
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=ante%20meridiem

The usage note also add that 12:00 AM/PM is confusing enough that one should say noon or midnight instead.