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Apollo Takacs
Registered User
Join date: 9 Feb 2007
Posts: 219
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04-25-2008 21:12
Any one know why,sl time on screen is given AM/PM,but in chat historyu it is 24 hour clock ?.
Thank You.
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Chosen Few
Alpha Channel Slave
Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
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04-25-2008 21:51
Heh, good question. I never thought about that.
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Phoenix Psaltery
Ninja Wizard
Join date: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 2,599
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04-25-2008 22:11
Because one Linden made the clock and another Linden made the chat logger.  P2 |
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Kidd Krasner
Registered User
Join date: 1 Jan 2007
Posts: 1,938
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04-25-2008 22:19
The most common reason for this sort of inconsistency is that the tasks got assigned to two different programmers. Formatting time is such a common item that no one said "hey, let's take my time formatter and make it the official one for everyone to use". Or alternatively, "I know how to format time, I don't need to look in our huge library to see if we have a special way of doing it." Finally, the developers probably never said "Hmm. I ought to check to see how we're formatting time in other components."
Note that nothing above is specific to SL. You can find this sort of trivial inconsistency in many different products. It's bound to happen when you have a UI that's not only huge, but doesn't fit into any common UI model.
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