Re: time-duration formats like "XXm XXs"

[email protected] (Autrijus Tang) Sat, 20 Apr 2002 04:19:32 +0800
Newsgroups perl.i18n
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:58:21PM -0600, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> Is 12:15 acceptable to everyone as a good way to write a duration of 
> 12minutes 15 seconds in your respective native languages?  I suppose that 
> it's ambiguous and could mean "12 hours 15 minutes", but in the context of 
> CD tracks (which is most of what Apache::MP3 is used for), it's fairly 
> clear from context that it doesn't mean that.  (I suppose ":12:15" doesn't 
> have this problem, but it looks very odd.)

I'll go with 00:12:15, even hardcoding '00:'.

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