[WikiEN-l] Re: Time Zone using 24-hour clock instead of number of hours

[Tim Starling]

Rowan Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:28:58 +0530, Rohan Sharma
> <gates.plusplus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I didn't try that with the colon :).
> 
> 
> Well, I saw the colon was there already, so assumed I could put
> something after it. Perhaps the message should be changed to
> "...number of hours and minutes..." to make this clear to those less
> prone to experimentation than myself?
> 

You can also use a decimal point, e.g. -1.5. It used to be that you 
could only enter an integer, but I fixed that about a year ago. Changing 
messages is a hassle, it's never going to get changed in all the other 
languages unless you go to a lot of trouble.

-- Tim Starling