In light of the move back to a monospaced font (#15), I'm thinking I'd like to also return to the dozenal single-character hour display I removed in 1353d29. The main reason I wasn't wild about this originally was because I was dedicating an entire letter the size of the hour digit just to "A" and "P", which was largely unnecessary, for all the reasons that clocks generally don't even have an "AM" or "PM" display, and as such made the whole venture seem a bit clumsy. (Also, "12" was represented as "0", which felt weird.) I figured, since I had switched to a proportionally-spaced font where "1" is a short digit (and was re-allocating space to be aligned around a fixed colon, meaning fixed character counts were no longer necessary to maintaining position), I might as well take advantage of this by going back to traditional hour displays.
However, now that there's a very-nice colon-based display for A vs. P, I'd like to revisit this idea, with "D" as the character for 12 instead of 0 (short for "dozen" and "duodecim", and because it looks like "0", and because "T" for "Twelve" could be confused with "T" for "Ten", the reason that I picked "X").
In light of the move back to a monospaced font (#15), I'm thinking I'd like to also return to the dozenal single-character hour display I removed in 1353d29. The main reason I wasn't wild about this originally was because I was dedicating an entire letter the size of the hour digit just to "A" and "P", which was largely unnecessary, for all the reasons that clocks generally don't even have an "AM" or "PM" display, and as such made the whole venture seem a bit clumsy. (Also, "12" was represented as "0", which felt weird.) I figured, since I had switched to a proportionally-spaced font where "1" is a short digit (and was re-allocating space to be aligned around a fixed colon, meaning fixed character counts were no longer necessary to maintaining position), I might as well take advantage of this by going back to traditional hour displays.
However, now that there's a very-nice colon-based display for A vs. P, I'd like to revisit this idea, with "D" as the character for 12 instead of 0 (short for "dozen" and "duodecim", and because it looks like "0", and because "T" for "Twelve" could be confused with "T" for "Ten", the reason that I picked "X").