Re: [SMW-devel] SMW_DV_Time progress report

[Patrick N. <ma...@pa...>]

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Hi Temlakos,

On Monday 27 July 2009 23:45:44 Temlakos wrote:
> 1.   Internationalize the twelve-hour clock conventions. I should
> mention in this connection that twelve-hour times are present in written
> documents only in America, Latin America (including Brazil), Korea,
> Russia, and China. Everywhere else uses 24-hour conventions in writing.
> For that reason, I do not propose to support this in German, French,
> Italian, or Polish. I do plan to support it in English, Spanish (for
> Latin-American usage), Korean, Russian, and Chinese.

Just a short comment: I have nearly never seen a written time with a.m./p.m. 
in (mainland) China. I have seen 上午/下午 (prefixed, like 上午9:40), but I would 
say 99% of the time they use the 24 hour clock in writing. Have a look at 
[1], it's quite complete and accurate, from what I can tell.

Patrick.

[1]: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country#Greater_China

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