Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by idiocratic on Monday March 09, 2020 @05:39PM
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Lockdown in Italy is a concept that is difficult to enforce. And it's probably very different to what it means in China or even just South Korea or any other more organised and centrally governed country in Europe like France.
But in essence:
Schools are closed until next month.
People can still move around freely for work reasons, and in general people still work in offices.
Bars and restaurants close after 18pm.
Shops are closed only on weekends.
People over 65 have free deliveries from most supermarkets, but very few use them.
Big groups of people are not allowed outside public places.
The social structure in Italy is still very much based on families, so people will remain with their close relatives and go out for a walk around home.
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Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by greggyb on Monday March 09, 2020 @05:47PM
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Completely random and off-topic. I'm in the US and used to 12-hour time. I personally prefer 24-hour time, and am comfortable with 18:00 or similar for a time indicator. I don't know that I've ever seen a 24-hour time with am/pm attached to it. Is this common?
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by giuscri on Monday March 09, 2020 @05:52PM
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No, at least not in Italy. In fact, I don't think it makes any sense.
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by technothrasher on Monday March 09, 2020 @09:16PM
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To feed off your random comment, I live in the US as well but switched all of my clocks (that I was able to) over to 24-hour time a few years ago. It just makes more sense to me. But everybody around me thinks I'm some sort of weirdo for it.
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by cowmoo728 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @09:34AM
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I switched everything I could to C, km, 24 hour time, and YYYY-MM-DD. US social conventions around measurements are just obtuse.
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by jfkebwjsbx on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:11AM
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Thank you.
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by Marsymars on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:12PM
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I've got a handful of software (Skype, my ereader) that don't have 24h time options. Super annoying, especially for software where all they'd have to do is use the OS time convention.
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by ygra on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:35AM
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I've found that a lot of software that moved to Electron or similar solutions has trouble adhering to OS settings. Heck, even Chrome ignores my date format in the history tag. That's what you get with a technology that's not really supposed to interact with the user's OS settings much.
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by J_cst on Monday March 09, 2020 @05:51PM
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not at all, it just seems a misprint / little error
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by soneil on Monday March 09, 2020 @09:51PM
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I say 6pm but write 18:00. I imagine things like that can very easily lead to awkward translations.
I've found countries (Slovakia springs to mind) that would say "a quarter of 8" for 7:15 (think "7 hours and a quarter of the eighth hour") and "half 8" for 7:30. Time can translate in rather interesting ways.
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by bitcurious on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:54PM
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In Russian at least, a closer translation would be “half of 8th” because it means something like “half of the 8th hour [has passed].”
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by buboard on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:23AM
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it's a gesture for the americans probably. you start typing 18:00 and realize that US people will want to know if it's pm.
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by idiocratic on Monday March 09, 2020 @07:07PM
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You're right. My mistake.
Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by HelloNurse on Monday March 09, 2020 @05:53PM
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Just a bit of redundancy, to compensate USA Covid-19 tests.