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Title: 24 hour clock? Post by: fff on 2005 August 05, 02:19:11 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? Title: Re: 24 hour clock? Post by: LK on 2005 August 05, 02:22:42 Someone will give you an answer at 0800 hours.
Title: Re: 24 hour clock? Post by: fff on 2005 August 05, 02:25:34 That was two and a half hours ago! ;D
Title: Re: 24 hour clock? Post by: J. M. Pescado on 2005 August 05, 02:38:59 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 (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/engrish.zip). Be warned that converting your game in midstream can have funny effects on your existing lots.
Title: Re: 24 hour clock? Post by: Ancient Sim on 2005 August 05, 02:51:20 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.
Title: Re: 24 hour clock? Post by: LK on 2005 August 05, 02:55:58 That was two and a half hours ago! ;D No, two hours ago was 1900ish. Or 1800ish. Or 20-something-ish. Come to think of it, who cares? Title: Re: 24 hour clock? Post by: fff on 2005 August 05, 07:22:57 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..... :)
Title: Re: 24 hour clock? Post by: Marvin Kosh on 2005 August 06, 15:17:51 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.
Title: Re: 24 hour clock? Post by: veilchen on 2005 August 06, 15:32:24 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. Title: Re: 24 hour clock? Post by: Oddysey on 2005 August 06, 15:59:41 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!
Title: Re: 24 hour clock? Post by: Marvin Kosh on 2005 August 06, 16:33:59 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. |