Subject: Re: Field name nitpick
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 07:53:25 CST
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:49:30PM +1100, Tim Allen wrote:
> Why "military time" to describe a 24-hour time? Is that what church
> secretaries call it? Didn't think church secretaries were into military
> anything :-). Certainly, the name didn't tell me anything, I had no idea
> what it was until I tried it. My suggestion is that something like "24-hour
> time" would be more obviously meaningful. Adjust for your own cultural,
> environmental and linguistic biases.
I agree that "military time" is a name only appropriate in the US,
while "24 hour time" is appropriate everywhere, including the US. So
we should change.
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