[asterisk-users] Voicemail.conf : concise hour prompts

[Olivier]

2008/12/9 Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com>

> On Tuesday 09 December 2008 09:14:11 Olivier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In  voicemail.conf:
> > ; Supported values:
> > ; 'filename'    filename of a soundfile (single ticks around the filename
> > ;               required)
> > ; ${VAR}        variable substitution
> > ; A or a        Day of week (Saturday, Sunday, ...)
> > ; B or b or h   Month name (January, February, ...)
> > ; d or e        numeric day of month (first, second, ..., thirty-first)
> > ; Y             Year
> > ; I or l        Hour, 12 hour clock
> > ; H             Hour, 24 hour clock (single digit hours preceded by "oh")
> > ; k             Hour, 24 hour clock (single digit hours NOT preceded by
> > "oh")
> > ; M             Minute, with 00 pronounced as "o'clock"
> > ; N             Minute, with 00 pronounced as "hundred" (US military
> time)
> > ; P or p        AM or PM
> > ; Q             "today", "yesterday" or ABdY
> > ;               (*note: not standard strftime value)
> > ; q             "" (for today), "yesterday", weekday, or ABdY
> > ;               (*note: not standard strftime value)
> > ; R             24 hour time, including minute
> >
> >
> > Is it me or it's not possible to hear something like :
> > "seventeen hour fifteen minutes" ?
> >
> > I can't get rid of "am" or "pm" prompts : both k, R or combinations fail.
>
> What language are you using?  It's possible that the translator for that
> language decided your usage was not common and did not create a set
> of prompts that work for you.


I'm using french.
I would say that in french french, usage is not to say "am" or "pm" when
counting hours from 0 to 23.
(for instance, you would say "nineteen hours fifteen minutes").

May be this is not the case in canadian french ?

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