Re: Text modes show military times. How do I change it to 12 hours format?

David Brown wrote:

countries. There are only a handful of old-fashioned countries that
still cling to the inconvenient and often ambiguous 12 hour system.

Actually, AM|PM time is not ambiguous. It is just that AM and PM are
Latin and mean before the meridian. It is dark when it is 12AM and 12PM
and it is light when it is 12M. But some people think 12AM is just
before lunch, and 12PM is in the middle of the night. This is not
ambiguous, just wrong. But it is so much of a problem that in the old
days, when railroad trains were dispatched by time, they solved it by
having no train leave a station at midnight. Thus, 12 O'Clock was
definitely lunch time, or thereabouts.

On the other hand, I think 12AM and 12 PM, which mark the very start of
a day and the very end of the same day, should be abolished and 24-hour
time should be universal, since English speaking people are too dumb to
learn the real meanings of AM and PM. Just the same as they do not know
what bimonthly means (every other month). Some people think it means
twice a month, but the name for that is semi-monthly. Since these also
have been abused so long, it will never be straightened out either.

flammable, inflammable, nonflammable. Another hopeless set. inflammable
should not be used as too many people do not know what inflammable means.

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