Re: 24-hour or 12-our clock and %p

[Hannie Dumoleyn <lafeber-dumoleyn2 zonnet nl>]

We, the Dutch translation team, use the 24-hour clock most of the time, 
since this is custom in our country.
Hannie

Op 28-02-15 om 20:05 schreef Ask Hjorth Larsen:
> Hello
>
> In many languages including Danish, "am" and "pm" ("%p" in strftime)
> do not exist.  When using the 12-hour clock one would simply say e.g.
> "11:32" which is of course ambiguous.  On a computer one would use the
> 24-hour clock to simply avoid this ambiguity.
>
> However we still have to provide a translation for strings like "%l:%M
> %p".  So what is the most correct translation?
>
>   1) Force the user to use 24-hour clock by simply translating it to "%H:%M", or
>   2) use the imprecise "%l:%M", or
>   3) retain the alien "%l:%M %p"?
>
> The user should probably not be using 12-hour clock in the first
> place, and so we would presumably rely on the locale settings already
> making it so that the correct code gets called.  I would therefore
> guess that option 3) is better.  In some cases, though, the idea might
> be that the translator chooses the format by means of the translation,
> and so it would be completely pointless not to use the most natural,
> 24-hour string.  Are there any rules or specifications for this?
>
> Best regards
> Ask
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