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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:22 am
by Alan R
Hello again SINCORDIA-------- "CONFUSED.COM" here with just a little niggle but in the "date created" heading, how can you have a time given as, for example}-- 02.30pm ?? Come on chaps, it's either 2.30pm or 14.30hrs. I suppose to be really pedantic we could also have the suffix of BST or GMT?? But hey, I've enough problems trying to remember who I am each morning !!
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:37 am
by Alan R
-----------------and also in "Latest Post".
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:27 am
by Bertie the Bullet
Alan,
When a computer infills a field with a value, in this case the time then it generally expects to fill a certain amount of characters, and anything without a value will be zero filled, in this case 02:30 instead of 2:30, it would take extra code to rid the line of the zero, which would mean more code within the web page and more to download, best just to live with it..
Bertie
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:39 am
by PeteF
I bow to your knowledge on this Bertie but Excel (for instance) allows formatting of the time in lots of ways including the "incorrect" 01:25pm and the more usual 1:25pm. Why the 01:25pm format is incuded I don't know - do the USA do it like that?
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:52 am
by another Allan
Bottom line, without being too technical, is Sincordia can't be too bright if they have a silly 'glitch' like this in the program (like another silly 'glitch' where you can't have paragraphs.) It's all been done before on countless internet forums (fora?) so it can't be too difficult. Maybe it's down to cost - after all, this is a free service for us, and perhaps out-of-synch-ordia would charge our hosts if any amendments needed to be made. It still doesn't excuse the fact that they made the errors in the first place, though. I'll shut-up now; beggars can't be choosers, etc...
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:03 am
by Alan R
------------SO !!! Who put the "SIN" in SINCORDIA ?? ANOTHER ALLEN-----perhaps it was they who supplied your High Capacity pumps and are having a LARFF !!
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:07 am
by PeteF
Can we really not get paragraphs?
Perhaps this would work.
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:08 am
by PeteF
No, taht doesn't work either.
How about this.
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:09 am
by PeteF
No, it seems you can't.
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:54 pm
by Alan R
I tried to get a paragraph--------------------------I tried to get a parrot----------------------I tried to get a paratrooper----------------------Does it work this way ??