<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Roboto,system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">On 7 April 2018 at 17:06,<span> </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:Roboto,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,".SFNSText-Regular",Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:blacet@blacet.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Roboto,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,".SFNSText-Regular",Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">blacet@blacet.com</a>></span><span> </span>wrote:<br style="font-family:Roboto,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,".SFNSText-Regular",Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;font-family:Roboto,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,".SFNSText-Regular",Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Roboto,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,".SFNSText-Regular",Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">According to Wikipedia, aids readabiity.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I saw that... and it kind of makes you wonder what they refer to. It's not like it's unreadable when upright, and it's not likely that other text on panels around the display are oblique.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 April 2018 at 22:46, Oren Leavitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:obl64@ix.netcom.com" target="_blank">obl64@ix.netcom.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
On 4/7/18 10:00 AM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:<br>
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my guess is it's in order to have the digits closer together and still fit the dot inbetween. think of the dot! :)<br>
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If you flip a subsequent digit unit upside down, it's dot will be above the dot of the previous digit. You a colon separator for a time display.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The dot might be part of the explanation, perhaps.</div><div><br></div><div>But that colon would be quite malformed with its upper dot at the very top. I've never seen such a time display colon. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>/mr</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>