Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 23:34:45 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote:
> On 24/6/24 21:41, Erwan David wrote:
> > Le 24/06/2024 à 22:38, Curt a écrit :

> > > When my mom came to visit one time in the nineties she requested I
> > > change my alarm clock to AM PM time (it is now 15:25 here in the Gallic
> > > regions, where the weather has finally turned summery after
> > > forty days and
> > > forty nights of rain).

> > AM/PM would not be so strange if between 11AM and 1 PM it was 12 AM ...
> > 
> The correct format for the 24 hour clock time, does not include a
> colon between the hours and the minutes - 10:30pm is 2230 in the 24
> hour clock format.

I have failed miserably to find a clock display in our house that
doesn't include a colon in the time display. So I thought Google's
Images page might have some and, indeed, there are one or two.

Where did you find this "correct" format? AFAICT, adding colons
to a string of digits is used as a self-documenting way of indicating
it's a time, whether time-of-day or an interval or period.

Cheers,
David.