[wp-hackers] Changing the clock format in Write > Post

[Alexander Beutl]

>
> I don't see why this
> couldn't just be a user profile option (i.e. 24-hour or 12-hour clock,
> which examples).


Because there are some people (especially Matt Mullenweg) who really dislike
options - thats why I am always trying to leve them out when dealing with
WordPress, while I myselfe would prefere adding some options.

When you go to edit the timestamp of a post, new or existing, it populates
> with a time.  If it's in the evening, it's going to be a value higher than
> 12.  The way you suggest, for people who do not want to use 24 hour time,
> they would have to select the PM option and then subtract 12 (unless you
> do
> that automatically with JS).


And they would end up with what? with the same hour and no change. If they
want to change it they could perfectly well change the hour (without doing
calculations, just select the hour you want it) and the selections (if am
doesn't apply), if they are OK with the hour and are only changing the
minute they wouldn't have to think about the hour and leave it like it is -
but hey, it's just an idea anyway, trying to avoid options since they are
officially disliked (while I do not know why and if there are possibilities
where they aren't disliked). Of course one could add an option and put out
the time fields accordingly.

In my opinion, what you're describing is horribly unintuitive.

Hmm thinking it over I admit it will be unintuitive for many. Yes the way
with the options would be better. Someone should write that patch and then
we should hope it will be added to core.

Wow this seems like a totally unhelpful and sour attitude.

Sorry, not my intention.


2008/5/4 Daniel Torreblanca <regulatethis at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Alexander Beutl <xel at netgra.de> wrote:
> >  So you want to tell me you need a setting to say "use pm per default"
> >  because someone is to lazy to select if he means am or pm???
> >
> >  Ok I'll explain my idea a bit slower:
> >  You have a selection list like following (where every line means a
> >  selectable value)
> >
> >  - 24 Format / am
> >  - pm
> >
> >  You do NOT need to seperate 24 and am since it doesn't matter. 3am is
> the
> >  same then 3 (international) - you will not have to add or substract
> anything
> >  here!
> >  And when some person is not able to calculate international time he/she
> will
> >  have to admit that he/she needs to select if he/she means am or pm!
> >  WordPress just can not guess that!
> >
> >
> >  Also, it'd be better to handle it in PHP
> >  > than JS.  MySQL understands both time formats without problem.
> >
> >
> >  Did I ever say this should be handles via JS?
> >  I said add a selection list where you can select it should be PM and
> then
> >  add 12 to what was submitted. You could as well add pm to the MySQL
> >  statement if mysql can work with that - I don't care which way.
>
> Wow this seems like a totally unhelpful and sour attitude. In my
> opinion, what you're describing is horribly unintuitive. Even your
> description of your idea is hard to follow. I don't see why this
> couldn't just be a user profile option (i.e. 24-hour or 12-hour clock,
> which examples).
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