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Siri, What Time Is It in London?

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Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?

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Post by LeoPanthera »

0zymandiass wrote: post #533
kilo_bravo_3 wrote: post #523

Siri doesn't know that my front door is called "FRONT DOOR". I only have one smart lock, which works perfectly, and it is called "FRONT DOOR" in HomeKit. When I ask Siri about my FRONT DOOR she responds that she cannot find it. When I ask Siri about the status of my DOOR, she responds with "The FRONT DOOR is locked/unlocked". I'll then say 'Alright Siri you literally just used the phrase "FRONT DOOR" five seconds ago…

I don't know if it works there, but siri couldn't understand one of my contacts names When it read back super incorrectly from an alias, I said something to the effect of "could you pronounce that correctly?" and it asked me to say it Since then, it's understood that person's name. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It really needs to expose the option to train those easily

Indeed, you can say "That's not how you say that" to correct its pronunciation of any name.

Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?

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Post by konschubert »

When I ask Siri to navigate to a contact, she won’t do it unless the contact has an address, even if the contact is tracked on Find My.

You’d think that after all those years Apple could have made the investment to program this feature, no?

Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?

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Post by jki275 »

sgjohnson wrote: post #549
ranieuwe wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We love what US calls “military time”

24h clock isn't exactly military time. 14:30 in military time would be fourteen hundred thirty hours, or one-four-three-zero hours, or in written format 1430Z, Z being Zulu (UTC), or an actual offset.

"military time" is a 24 hour clock.

14:30 is almost without exception read as "fourteen thirty" in military time.

I've never seen it either of the ways you describe above.

Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?

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Post by jefftk »

kshacker wrote: post #446
mzzter wrote: post #424

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Looks like the autocomplete is going off alphabetical order rather than some other characteristic of the city?

I guess that's the next innovation. In the old days, you enter the entire search string. Then you got Google Suggest where each keystroke was trapped and responded to. Now not only you need to trap each keystroke, you need a weighted list of results so you show them in the order of popularity. Not an Edit: I am pretty sure Google is already doing it so it is not an innovation, its been there for a while. I am calling…

Weighting results in Search Autocomplete is something Google has done since launching it.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, though not on this)

Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?

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Post by philwelch »

jvolkman wrote: post #486
lowdose wrote: post #448

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For your neighborhood or was this a more structural problem and did your collegeas find more locations with similar issues?

IIRC it had something to do with the parent hierarchy of my neighborhood. It was parented by both a postal code and a city, or something. I'm probably making that up, but I'm sure you can imagine how difficult it is to create and maintain abstractions for every possible geographic situation. I wasn't aware of any other occurrences.

Zip codes don’t denote geographic regions; they denote nodes in the postal routing network.

Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?

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Post by jki275 »

Beldin wrote: post #382
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #292

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There are huge swaths of Americans who will literally not know what 17:00 translates to in AM/PM. And even for the Americans that do know, virtually all of them (unless they are in the military or another profession that commonly uses 24h time), will have to "translate" by subtracting 12 in their head for PM times. 24h time is extremely rare in everyday use in the US.

> 24h time is extremely rare in everyday use in the US. Sure. > There are huge swaths of Americans who will literally not know what 17:00 translates to in AM/PM. 1. Same is true for most people in the world 2. Wait, you mean they don't know if 17:00 is early morning or late afternoon?? Seriously, I have a hard time to believe that. I'll believe that most Americans need to convert to am/pm, but not that "huge swaths"…

Most Americans have never heard of a 24 hour clock and would have no idea what 1700 means at all.

Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?

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Post by abjKT26nO8 »

briandear wrote: post #456
abjKT26nO8 wrote: post #369

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HN is not an exception. It's the most stark in threads about salaries.

Hacker News is an American site, specifically a Silicon Valley site. If you went to a British site, they would be talking about things from a British context. All are welcome, but it’s a bit ridiculous to complain that every conversation on the internet doesn’t support multiple currencies.

Correction: Hacker News is an American-founded site with international community of users. That's not a site for Americans where the rest of the world just comes to watch. Or maybe I missed a point in the guidelines...

I'm not talking about currencies. I'm talking about sentences like "if you move to the east, you'll earn...", "in the south, it's..." in conversations with no prior indication that it's just about US and "the east" means "the east of US" and "the south" means "the south of US". Because US is the whole world and there is no need to clarify...

Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?

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Post by flurdy »

ngngngng wrote: post #530

There's a Woodland Hills in Utah and a Woodland Hills in California. If you ask Google what the weather is in Woodland Hills, it will ALWAYS give you the weather for California. Even if your current location is Woodland Hills, Utah and even if your address is set to Woodland Hills Utah in your Google account or Google home.

I live in Alton in Hampshire in England. A town of 20,000ish people. To be fair Google (Maps etc) tend to get the correct Alton, but a lot of mickey mouse site often thinks I am in Alton, Shropshire, a tiny village next to a more famous theme park, Alton Towers. Which is very annoying setting filters job sites as I am never sure which Alton it thinks I am in, local ads that don't make sense etc.

Worse there is an Alton, New Hampshire, which confuses even Google sometimes.

Even worse, Apple seems sometimes confused where I am as I have twice woken up to see a tornado warning on my IOS lock screen in the mornings. I live pretty far from any decent tornados. Unfortunately, I have been too sleepy to prevent myself from unlocking the screen before I remember to screenshot it.

Re: Siri, What Time Is It in London?

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Post by [deleted] »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #551
0zymandiass wrote: post #533

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if it works there, but siri couldn't understand one of my contacts names When it read back super incorrectly from an alias, I said something to the effect of "could you pronounce that correctly?" and it asked me to say it Since then, it's understood that person's name. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It really needs to expose the option to train those easily

Indeed, you can say "That's not how you say that" to correct its pronunciation of any name.

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