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ORIGINAL: Captain B

Actually, I believed everyone went off the standard "military time" format. Much less messy that way (and easier to coordinate attacks)

ddHHnnZmmmyy where dd is the date, HH is hours (24 hour clock thank you); nn is minutes; Z is Greenwich Mean Time or the time zone; mmm is the month and yy is the last two digits of the year.

So right now in Greenwich it would be 032007ZDec10 or locally 031507RDec10 here in sunny East Tennessee.

ORIGINAL: Flaviusx

Redmarkus, I'm guessing that the fellows running the RAF and the USAAF during WW2 had something resembling a sense of proportion and got on by assuming each other's orders would reflect their national peculiarities and didn't make a fuss about it.

ORIGINAL: planetbrain

^
None the less it is bloody annoying, having to apply extra consideration to some thing as simple as the date!
I also have it with Panzer Command Kharkov that the game won't run unless I change the date format on my system to U.S., regardless of a patch that supposedly fixed this!

ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

Being an Aussie I totaly see Judge's point of view but in game terms I think it is much more relevant that we address driving on the right side of the road.

The right side is the left side.

Can all players of WitE please do that once they get their games.

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

ok - I know boredom sets in when people are waiting for a game, but you have no reason to be bored - you've got the bloody thing! [:'(]

ORIGINAL: The Plodder

ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

Being an Aussie I totaly see Judge's point of view but in game terms I think it is much more relevant that we address driving on the right side of the road.

The right side is the left side.

Can all players of WitE please do that once they get their games.

Yes, and being from Melbourne, I suppose you want everyone to do hook turns as well?[:D]

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

I'm sure it does seem trivial to you. I have no doubt it would seem trivial to alot of others as well.

It's not such a big deal to me that it's a "buy or no buy" decision...but I would like the option. That's all I'm asking. I'm not bothered about it being applied later in a patch which will inevitably be forthcoming...and not even in the first patch.

I find the US date system (when dealing with days below 13th) to be confusing and regularly have to "think" about what the actual date is. That's because I've been brought up using a different system to yourselves. As I said, it's not the language differences - it's not the metric/imperial - they are not something I will have to bother with during the game - but the dates are.

It's a pity it didn't occur to anyone involved in the devlopment. Dare I suggest it is normal programming procedure to use the date system set by ones system.

I apologise to anyone who thinks I've wasted valuable thread space by posting this trivial issue.

You know what, seriously if it didn't bother anyone else, then I wonder why post - and now the thread is de-railed. I asked if it was changeable and if not could it be added in the future. I even said not to hold up release.

Thanks alot guys [8|]

Devs - don't worry about it. I'll get by

(mental note to self - don't post anything if I think it might be incredibly trivial to someone else)

ORIGINAL: Rotherman

Its good to see you colonials getting on with each other.

ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

ORIGINAL: Rotherman

Its good to see you colonials getting on with each other.

I'll admit, this could be the reason why the panzers stopped short of Moscow:

ORIGINAL: Captain B

Mr Flaviusx...Ya'll have done wonderfully well...thanks to you and to all the developers (not to mention Joel, Gary, and a slew of others) we will all be fried at one point or the other, and that time is drawing very near.

And frankly I am waiting for that moment when I'm up for the better part of a four day holiday playing what has to be the most anticipated game (at least for me) in forever. Fried, Brain dead, whatever...it will be "yes dear, I'll come to bed as soon as I complete this turn". Five turns later...."I'll be in soon" Three turns later. "Sh _ _! I have to get to work. Maybe I'll just call and take the day off.

[8D]