How to change 24-hour clock?

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Level 1

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How to change 24-hour clock?

Under Settings->General->Date & Time, the setting is set to 24H and blanked out.

How do you change the 24H format to 12H?

Windows Vista

Posted on Dec 18, 2007 12:48 PM

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Answer 1

Goshia

Level 4

1,400 points

Dec 18, 2007 1:10 PM in response to Stewie Grif.

Go to
Settings:
General:
Date & Time:
24-Hour Time "OFF"

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Answer 2

Ansuz82

Level 6

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Dec 18, 2007 1:10 PM in response to Stewie Grif.

My understanding is that when the phones mode is set to UK you must use the 24 hour format. Its a bug with the software. Switch the format to US and 12hr will be available

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Answer 3

Stewie Grif. Author

Level 1

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Dec 18, 2007 1:21 PM in response to Ansuz82

Ansuz, you are right. If I set the Region Format to US, I can change 24H/12H, but not if it's set to UK. That's really odd.

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Answer 4

Ansuz82

Level 6

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Dec 18, 2007 1:45 PM in response to Stewie Grif.

As I said, its an interesting bug in the "international" part of the 1.1.2 upgrade.

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Answer 5

romad

Level 3

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Dec 18, 2007 6:48 PM in response to Stewie Grif.

Stewie Grif. wrote:
Ansuz, you are right. If I set the Region Format to US, I can change 24H/12H, but not if it's set to UK. That's really odd.

Not really. 24H is part of the System International (a.k.a. "metric"). Since the U.K. has officially adopted it in place of the "English" system, 24H is the standard. Additionally since the other countries have used 24H notation for years and years, it was probably not realized that the U.K. has done it for only, what 20/30 years. Thus there are still people alive who remember the "old" system. I use 24H all the time since I was in the Air Force.

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