Wintermist
2 months agoRising Ace
24h clock setting, please
I'm not American, but I play with English and then I get am/pm which is unnatural to me. Couldn't you look into adding a setting for if you want 24h clock or 12h one?
I'm not American, but I play with English and then I get am/pm which is unnatural to me. Couldn't you look into adding a setting for if you want 24h clock or 12h one?
Perti23, I can't speak for all English speakers, but I know a majority of Americans find the 24hr format more confusing. For people that I know, 6am and 6pm is less complicated. I only know the military time clock because I was an Air Force brat in my childhood during the 1980's and 1990's. Outside of the military, I don't think most Americans really use it, thus why saying 1800 hours is confusing to them.
I speak English as a second language and this am/pm thing is so confusing to me. I keep forgetting which is which all the time. Don't native speakers ever mix it up?
I play the game in Czech and it displays time in a 24 hour format.
catnipdealr, it is. But in the USA, where the game was developed and made, a majority of Americans do not use military time. It is only really used by the military. A common citizen uses the am/pm system so you can have a 6am and 6pm.
This thread is making me confused lol . Isn't military time the same as 24hour? I use 24h which I would like to see in my game as an option.
Exactly.
It really isn't that hard to convert the 24 hour metric system into military time.
Miataplay, 1800 hours is 6pm. When I read this post, I figured they meant what some Americans know as military time. It is like many people wake up at 0600 (spoken as oh-six hundred) hours. There are many games I play that use military time as a way to tell time.
Basically, what metric time is, it starts at 1, which is 1am for you, and goes to 24 which is midnight (12pm). We who are using that don't have to think anything of it of course, it's just what we've always used.
18:00 is 6pm.
What you call military time IS the 24 hour clock, the Metric system :)
And as unnatural it can be for you to convert time quickly into what you're used to, it's equally so for us who has to do the opposite lol. That's why I really wish they would add the 24h (metric) clock as an option over the 12h (imperial) clock, so everyone can just have it the way they're used to :D
4 real dont make me look 1800 up! 😆
Edit: I didn't see anything about a military clock in the OP's title...just 24 and 12 hours..
A military time clock setting would be fine with me. I was an Air Force brat, so I knew that setting from a young age. I will say a majority of Americans that I know are not familiar with it. If you say supper is at 1800 hours, they are confused. It is not a common way for many to tell time. I can only speculate that as to why it isn't a feature already.