bookmarks/.../bm-props.dtd does only support "AM/PM" times, not 24-hour times. The bigger part of the world uses the 24-hour-system and Joe Consumer there does eventually not understand "2 AM". (see "I18N and time" thread on n.p.m.l10n) All of this was seen with M12 and build 2000-01-18-08 (win32, but should also be true for others...)

Setting QA contact to amasri@netscape.com as he wished in the thread.

Added beta1 in keywords.

PDT+

Reassigned to chjung. Chang, if this doesn't belong to L10N, you may reassign it to the developer.

if i may, does all this entail is adding the necessary 12 hours as labels?

Hi, Steve and Robert: Is there any reason Bookmark window can not use the datetimeformat class from i18n's lirary? I don't understand why we need to define those entities for date and time. I am reassigning this bug to your group. Thanks

I agree that this is important, but I don't think we'd hold beta for it. Removing pdt+ for reconsideration.

Hi, folks, Any idea what are the percentage of population use AM/PM v.s. 24-hour format? Thanks

Yep, deal with this in M15. It's not a beta1 blocker.

For the record, here is what I got so far from n.p.m.l10n newsgroup: Use AM/PM format: Colombia Use 24 Hrs format: Most European countries used 24 hr format: Adnan: Bosnia and all others Balkan countries Ben Bucksch <mozilla.news@bucksch.org>: All other non-English European countries I know (Germany, France, Italy etc.) Jan: Czech Gia: Georgia everson@egt.ie (Michael Everson): In Ireland both are used, which is irritating. The television guide uses 12-hour time but my video recorder uses 24-hour time. 24-hour time is recommended.

Yes, in almost all non-english speaking countries around the world time is reported in ISO8601 format http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html In most languages am/pm have no meaning. To People in non-english speaking countries this type of format is meaningless.

Is this a beta-1 localization stopper for you?

We would like to have both formats. but I don't think this is beta1 stopper.

I agree with Ray. This would be a stop ship for final release but not for beta. I *do* think that we should try to fix it since it is only a text display issue. In fact it seems to me that it was harder to write for 12hour in the first place (since 24hour does not need any conversion).

Fixed. This can now be localized correctly.

Hi, Robert: Thank you for listening!

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