AM/PM or 24 hour time-format in replies

[disposable_bag]

Maybe reimagining just "Force English in reply headers" as ISO 8601 instead of implying that English has something to do with the US locale? English is rather the modern exterritorial lingua franca, and the reason to choose English in reply headers is mostly to facilitate communication with people across different cultures who do understand the language but not necessarily the peculiar US date and time format.

Oops, I should have tried this setting myself, as it keeps the time format in the 24h mode if set so in the system-wide settings (unless the aforementioned, sometimes elusive Android bug strikes again)

[Kostya Vasilyev]

I don't have any particular tenderness in my heart for ISO 8601, especially for things like:

"2015-08-02T21:50:49+03:00"

Who in the world is going to be able to understand this? Except you and maybe three other people?

"Ok, me, John, and Mary, and who is the third one", I hear you ask

The "Use English" setting is precisely for people whose phones are set to their national language, and yet they don't want this language to be used in quoting (because the other parti(ies) don't know it).

"US English" is apparently just fine for all these users -- just as long as it's "On ... August ... wrote" and not "... написал ... августа".

And so I have no intention to touch this at all, unless something truly serious surfaces up.

[pyler]

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/107718/

Possible fix?

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Yeah, really looks like it could be...

[pyler]

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=181201#c7

But a Googler couldn't reproduce it, it had worked in his tests.