For us Americans, will there be an option to change the 24 hour time notation to a 12 hour time notation? (AM/PM)
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Why? It's not that hard. Just subtract 12 if it's pm.
Besides, you could just look on the map, and see that it's night...
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Indeed, why? With having to look at pm or am it makes things mire confusing and provides no benefits. With 23 or 11 you can see with glance of an eye is it night or morning.
Or is HOI so easy that you need to go to extremes to make it at least tiny bit harder?
In any case it is not big deal, i could live with pm or am myself, it just is pointless aka stupid.
It provides no advantages, but could cause bugs, so no need to have that. Just wasting time really to code that in.
And you don't have to subtrack 12 from 20 to find out it is 8, becouse it is not 8, it is 20.
Or is HOI so easy that you need to go to extremes to make it at least tiny bit harder?
In any case it is not big deal, i could live with pm or am myself, it just is pointless aka stupid.
It provides no advantages, but could cause bugs, so no need to have that. Just wasting time really to code that in.
And you don't have to subtrack 12 from 20 to find out it is 8, becouse it is not 8, it is 20.
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it shows u the time in the top right for a reason you do know, and where I live 20 is 8
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Sorry but I don't get the us American's statement nor the need for a 12 hour clock? Militaries including the US have run on a 24 hour clock for quite a while and how you would have problems discerning that 0100 is 1am and 1000 is 10am should be quite easy to convert to even if you've never seen a 24 hour clock in your life no matter where you live.
Probably not a difficult thing to mod in if you really need it but as above poster said the entire purpose of the day/night cycle is to show you whether it's light or dark where your troops fighting no matter the timezone while the game time I actually only ever looked at in HOI3 when it was time to kick off a campaign but that was more for historical immersion than anything else.
Probably not a difficult thing to mod in if you really need it but as above poster said the entire purpose of the day/night cycle is to show you whether it's light or dark where your troops fighting no matter the timezone while the game time I actually only ever looked at in HOI3 when it was time to kick off a campaign but that was more for historical immersion than anything else.
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Well 12 vs 24 is not worst thing there is. It could be illogical dating system Americans have where it goes from month to day to year aka medium to small to big, instead of logical small medium large aka day month year.
But to me it makes sense for 8pm to be 20 becouse you have already had 12 hours and are now living the second half.
But to me it makes sense for 8pm to be 20 becouse you have already had 12 hours and are now living the second half.
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yep ever sense i got out of the marines i have everything on 24 hour clock its much easier to figure out what time it is when doing accounting for time sheets.
now if we had things in metric i would whole hardly agree, but this isn't a huge deal
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Echoing the sentiment of "Why?" indeed. The 24 hour clock is not difficult at all and is preferred in most places in the world for standard notation of time. The statement "For us Americans" is also unnecessary, 12 hour clock is more convenient for conventional speaking but 24 hour clock is easier for display. I reckon it'll probably not be difficult to mod in, but, you could also adopt the 24 hour clock as a regular thing as a country too and get used to it... 
Only teasing.
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Yeah no, as an American it's not hard and is standard military time, for a military grand strategy game.
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Really, come on, it's probably the most simple thing in the world to understand. I don't think they are going to change it. If they do change it for whatever reason, then horray for you. But I won't use it.
As an American, I'm perfectly happy with 24-hour time.
Can we get some metric-time? 100 hours in a day. We launch the invasion at 30:80!
Can we get some metric-time? 100 hours in a day. We launch the invasion at 30:80!
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as the name blitzkrieg says: it has roughly the same speed.
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