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

[Heriberto Avelino <heriberto.avelino@gmail.com>]

Well,
The International BIPM writes the time with a colon:

https://www.bipm.org/en/
Best
Heriberto

On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

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