>>I still don't see how is 02:03:13 PM more readable than 14:03:13 - both are sets of numbers, but the first one has an ambiguous piece which needs an additional qualifier to disambiguate it, and that one is detached, at the opposite end of the string. In my book, that's less readable. More traditional and habitual, yes, but I wouldn't go so far to call it more readable.
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>You might see this if someone responds and you read the thread, but more "readable" probably wasn't the exact goal. More like you said of being more traditional. Our users like things that way.

This being a technical forum, I jumped on a technicality :).

I'm quite used to doing things any wrong or awkward way just because the end users want it that way, or if it makes the system more usable to them. I'm just not giving up on calling it awkward.