PE> And like I say, it's only USA, Canada (not Quebec), Britain,
PE> Australia and NZ that use 12-hour clocks.  According to the NLS
PE> guidelines book anyway.

KR> rofl you really think that that is any guide to what ordinary people do?

That's EXACTLY what it's meant to do.  It's for the ordinary
end-user, not technical people.

KR> what about japan? most people that i met there used 12 hour notation

Oh yeah, Japan too.  Japan was even listed as MM-DD-YY.  

Has anyone here actually been to France and asked a Frenchman
what time it was when it was 13:30?  BFN.  Paul.
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