Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: VMS Software Bootcamp 2024 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:40:07 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <7c6e9a918559f88f5bce8b69e461dcfdec96ba30@i2pn2.org> <66e465e9$0$705$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:40:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="830c6c231e366e22265cd8273d1f5b61"; logging-data="3923290"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18fEMpVg442JI2JEtRhz9/Ua06WFpbRgkc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:nOliE0b/GmW0zOjjLTtjF7gJimQ= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1713 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