[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Time

[Toby Smithe]

On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 22:01 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Saturday 09 September 2006 20:35, Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 20:33 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > > On Saturday 09 September 2006 19:53, Ed Hargin <ed at bluehome.net> wrote:
> > > > I too have always believed that the correct time separation is a colon.
> > > >  A reference can be found here:
> > > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
> > > > You will need to scroll down to the time section, which sets out the
> > > > international time notation as such:
> > > >
> > > > "Time of day
> > > >
> > > > The international standard notation for the time of day is
> > > >
> > > > hh:mm:ss
> > >
> > > While a full stop may be an acceptable delimiter in Britain, it is not in
> > > other English-speaking locales. A colon, on the other hand, is
> > > universally understood.
> >
> > I live in Britain, and I hate the full stop as a delimiter. *Time is not
> > decimal!*
> 
> To be fair, it's not a ratio either :)
> 

It's more a ratio than it is a decimal, though.
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