On 9/17/2024 7:25 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:06:21 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> Of course in most programming languages today you can specify the format >> to use. > > I would say Java in particular is an example of how not to do it. You mean that "HH:mm" and "hh:mm a" are way worse than '%H:%M' and '%I:%M %p' ? :-) Arne