Sure.

For a while now, if you needed the time from your computer, and it was running UNIX or a variant, you’d use something like gettimeofday() (it’s clock_gettime() now) which would hand you seconds since the epoch at midnight January 1, 1970 in UTC and microseconds/nanoseconds depending. You’d take the seconds, wash it through localtime_r to adjust for the local time zone, and you’d have a struct you could feed to strftime() for formatting.

So my beef with time formats, and what I presume ChickenLadyLovesLife’s beef is, is that when the time format is “wrong” for whatever reason, given the similiarity between the backends of modern time systems, it’s “wrong” for reasons other than technical limitations. You’ve got a count in seconds since the beginning of time, and a function that’s been around for decades that can do whatever stupid stuff you want. Military time, month printed out, day of week printed out, two character years, four character years, seconds, julian day, Doing something silly like day of year, hour of day, and am/pm (“%j %I %p”) is just as easy as something practical like a large fluffy timestamp, or a minimalist four characters military time (“%H%M”). The hard part was getting the time from the GPS or cell phone tower or wherever. The easy part is the time format. Windows also exists, and uses something similar. Modern programming with C++ or Python will have libraries (<chrono> and datetime, respectively) that work the same way, and both those examples use strftime() semantics.

So, if you’re unhappy with the way your device prints out time, the reason behind it isn’t the clock part of it, it’s the display part. There was some rationale on Android’s behalf for adopting the hour over minutes style, but it wasn’t because their available horizontal character limit dropped from four (five if you count a colon) to two. Maybe they can get more data widgets displayed around the time in a little halo? I don’t know, I don’t use android stuff anywhere. If it was apple I’d assume they did UX testing about half height characters and readability.

So, now to the “end goal” part of what I wrote before. The hard part is done and a solved problem, and most time formats work fine for what they do. tmux is giving me (“%H:%M %d-%b-%y”) which works fine, and my desktop environment (DE) is using (“%a, %b %d %H:%M”) which is fine. The other DE is using (“%b %d %H:%M”) which is fine. All perfectly usable, all used the three character representation of the month avoiding problems between dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy, and all of those are adjustable to an extent with two of the three kicking back to strftime() if I needed it. So what did android get when they paid developers to make the change to hours on top of minutes? Is there a study I missed that of a group of people who’d never seen a clock before and had no concept of time found the “%H\n%M” style more easy to read? If that’s true, then was it worth irritating the subset of people who are going to care about the change to pick up the other group? I personally don’t see a point in paying to make the change unless they’re expecting to make more money from it, which at the core of a lot of things in the world these days. Here’s something that worked fine, but now it’s being changed to work differently but no better.

I suggest wingding font

Can you not just glance and see approximately? Can’t think visually, must convert to numerical?

Unironically yes please, I’d root my phone for this

*everyone is crying and everyone alone because terminally online

Oh it has significantly more sensors than that, trust me.

As for the seatbelt sensor, honestly depends on the cost and how long you plan on keeping it. Without knowing your car, I can’t say for sure, but I suspect it’s a simple switch. The issue may very well also be in the wiring, or the switch could’ve broken loose or something (in which case you’d likely need the belt buckle receptacle thingy).

Personally I’m so annoyed by things like that, I’d fix it. It probably annoys you, and if you do end up selling it rather than keeping it, it’ll annoy the buyer.

Like for fun, or you mean without change?

I never look at the RPM gauge in a manual, just drive by feel and sound. But no doubt it’d be useful if you’re doing off-road driving?

OBD2 absolutely works while the engine is on, what are you smoking?

OBD2 primarily works when the vehicle is running. It can be used to tune some vehicles while they are on. What car do you have that doesn’t have the OBD port on while its running? It would be illegal in most states in the US.

Per wiki.:

The “idiot light” terminology arises from popular frustration with automakers’ use of lights for crucial functions which could previously be monitored by gauges, so a troublesome condition could be detected and corrected early. Such early detection of problems with, for example, engine temperature or oil pressure or charging system operation is not possible via an idiot light, which lights only when a fault has already occurred – thus providing no advance warnings or details of the malfunction’s extent.

Oil pressure is different than oil level. And a temp gauge and battery gauge tell you what happening.

As you drive your car you get used to what the normal mode is, and when it starts to deviate you get clues to what might be going on in your engine.

I.e. I’d start my truck and as it warmed up before the first traffic light, then on the trip to work it had a normal range for summer and winter. When I started to see temp gauge climb higher than usual, and then stay there a long time then suddenly drop super low , it tells you your thermostat for coolant flow is starting to stick closed, and probably needs replacing.

For oil pressure you see a normal range , but if temp is up and oil pressure drops you are overheating the engine and losing lubrication. Or if pressure suddenly went down it could be blocked d oil filter, or if it suddenly is fine it can mean the bypass has opened and you are no longer filtering oil.

Idiot lights don’t tell you any of this, only what has failed when it totally fails

I get that, i just find that speed and rpm is even less relevant. Speed is just look where your driving that tells you what you need to know, and RPM is sound you can hear how hard your car is working.