This worked fine on every iOS, iPad OS, macOS and watchOS device I have. I’ll try later on tvOS and report back if I can reproduce anything of what Mr. Fireball claimed.
Siri, What Time Is It in London?
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Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?
#432Gold content here for Siri's PM team if they are watching.
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#433Literally not reproducible. A lot of bluster over nothing.
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#434Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is rather inconvenient when shopping for niche products. American website assumes that everyone on the internet is American, and you have to go through the shopping cart experience to learn that they don't ship to Canada or Europe.
See also: "Please select a state" dropdown with no "Not US" option. TBF internationalisation is complicated and hard to do well. So is international shipping. But compare with a European site like thomann.de, which not only handles currencies and taxes but also (mostly) translates the product descriptions into most European languages.
That's dedicated, having worked for a company that took care of online shops for clients, most of them would balk at the cost of doing that.
Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?
#435I grew up in Lucknow, India (a tier 2 city with around 3MM people at the time) and had multiple assistants think I meant Lucknow, Ontario — a town with population of a 1000 people.
Having been to London, Ontario, I can confirm that it also doesn't have quite the same heft as London, England :)
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#436Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think almost everybody in European countries knows about AM/PM, but I certainly get confused by 11:59 AM vs 12:00 AM
I've never been able to keep 12 AM vs 12 PM straight in my head. If I have to put something on my calendar or set an alarm for that time, I always use 11:59 AM or PM. Is there a mnemonic or trick for remembering?
Think of 12.30.
12.30 PM is after-noon.
Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?
#437I get this problem all the time and I live in "the right" London so it is not just a "nearest London" thing. It is not just digital assistants, but so many other things like Google maps, e-commerce sites, address auto-completes etc seem to assume that I want the North American one with a population of 300k that no one knows about, not the one that everyone has heard of with a population of 9 million. I've always just…
Can we please also take a moment to wish tiny inconveniences upon designers of applications which ignore my locale and present me with "11:06 AM" or worse, "04/05/2020"?
Or calendars that start on Sunday (since I'm European and am used to calendars starting on Monday). Forget to notice the label once and one could end up booking a hotel room for Thursday to Saturday.
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#438This worked fine on every iOS, iPad OS, macOS and watchOS device I have. I’ll try later on tvOS and report back if I can reproduce anything of what Mr. Fireball claimed.
I can also confirm iOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and my AppleTV picked London, England.
Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?
#439Literally not reproducible. A lot of bluster over nothing.
I just tried it and my watch gave me the time in London, KY. I live in Atlanta.
Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?
#440It seems like this would always be a hard task, especially once you get down to the smaller cities.
Shortly after Siri launched, I would be sitting in the Bay Area asking Siri “What’s the weather like in Pasadena?”. Siri would return the weather in Pasadena, TX, not Pasadena, CA.
The reason I could come up with why Siri returned the Houston suburb instead of the LA suburb? Pasadena, TX has a higher population (149K vs 141K), so it returned the one that had the higher population, even though the California one was much more prominent.
Seems like Gruber’s experience led to an overcompensation. It’s similar to a bug where I was actually in Pasadena, CA and asking for weather in Santa Barbara, and Siri would return Santa Barbara Island, not Santa Barbara, CA, even though the island was closer to me as the crow flies.