Re: 12 hr vs 24 hr time display
Re: 12 hr vs 24 hr time display
- Subject: Re: 12 hr vs 24 hr time display
- From: Sandor Szatmari <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 11:34:29 -0500
Jeremy,
> On Jan 3, 2017, at 10:30, Jeremy Pereira <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> On 3 Jan 2017, at 06:16, Sandor Szatmari <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I am working on a small application where the primary function is to display the time to the user. My hope was to honor the user's preference setting. I am either missing something or honoring the user's preference is harder than expected.
>>
>> So, there are two places to set 24 hr time display.
>>
>> 1. Date & Time preference panel
>> 2. Language & Region preference panel
>>
>> The cocoa frameworks react differently depending on where you set this.
>>
>> If set by method 1, cocoa frameworks seem unaware of this setting and it appears this is cosmetic in that it only affects the display of the clock in the NSStatusBar.
>>
>> If set by method 2, cocoa frameworks reflect this and the Date & Time setting is disabled noting that the setting has been overridden.
>>
>> So if a user uses method 1, potentially unaware of method 2, how should one go about determining the user's intentions.
>
> It seems obvious to me that method 1 only refers to the clock display in the menu bar and nothing else. It’s a sub setting of
> “Show date and time in the menu bar”.
>
> If you honour whatever preference is set by method 2 as your code fragment below does, you’ll be fine.
>
I feel like fewer people use/find method 2, simply stopping at method 1. This may be a gross assumption on my part. Under my assumption they would simply think my app doesn't display 24 hr time or respect the system setting. Am I being to sensitive here?
Sandor
>
>>
>> There are deprecated methods using: (didn't try, it's deprecated)
>> NSUserDefaults with the key NSShortTimeDateFormatString
>>
>> There are supported methods using: (works with method 2)
>> NSString *format = [NSDateFormatter dateFormatFromTemplate:@"j" options:0 locale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];
>> BOOL is24Hour = ([format rangeOfString:@"a"].location == NSNotFound);
>>
>> Can anyone provide any clarity here?
>>
>> Sandor
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