Enter 24 hour times in iCal.

I use 24 hour time and I cannot figure out how to get iCal to allow me to enter times correctly. How does one do this? I can customize times in systems preferences so they display correctly but I cannot get a iCal to let me type them in.

Rob,
...but I cannot get a iCal to let me type them in.
I use the 24 hour display, and I have to use the Up/Down arrow keys when entering time information.
If that is not working for you, try refreshing the iCal plist file.
Quit iCal and find the com.apple.iCal.plist file in your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder. Drag the file to your Desktop, log out/in or restart and check iCal for time entry.
;~)

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24 Hour times in iCal

Just a query......does anyone know how to make the timing based on a 24h clock (I just hate AM/PM because my work is 24h shift based).
Cheers HyperDoc

This is a goofy Mac OS X 10.4 thing.
Launch System Preferences and open the International preference pane in the Personal panel. Press the Formats tab and then the Customize… button in the center, under the Times section.
Under the Show: Short menu, you should see two values listed, the first representing hours, and the second representing minutes. If you click on that first value, you should see a downward-facing triangle. Press it to drop-down a menu on the right hand side of the value, and select the 01-24 format choice. Press the OK button, and quit.
iCal should display 24 hour times from that point on, though some users—all or most using releases prior to version 2—indicating that existing event times don't shift to 24 hour representation. All of mine did.

Switching from 12 to 24 hour time in ical - disappearing times

I live in the US, but I wanted my clock to change to 24 hour time. I did that, but then my region has to be custom and now the time displayed on the left has disappeared. I don't feel like this should be so complicated, but... it is. So I looked up how to change the time, and it worked, but the numbers disappeared and that's not very helpful since that was what I was trying to change. I can even change it back and they're still gone.

Never mind! I restarted iCal (not sure why I didn't think of that before) and the time display on the left returned! But still, I hope for a simpler option for switching to 24 hour time in the future. All you should have to do in my opinion is click on a check box or bullet.
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iCal is supposed to have some type of natural language support. However, I can't get it to consistently enter a time. Most of the time it has the all day option checked.
I've tried these formats:
some kind of meeting @ 8a
some kind of meeting @8a
some kind of meeting at 8a
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'AM' or 'PM' that's right for the start time. The app appears to make the ending time 1 hour later which would make sense. Of course, once the event is created, it can be edited. Not entering a start time will make the 'All Day' checkbox be checked since the app doesn't know it's not an all day event.
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Hi,
This feature is new in Lion. I get what Apple is doing but I don't view the calendar in day mode. I use iCal exclusively in Month mode. Therefore, if I add an entry like "10:00am doctor's appt.," iCal will (correctly) assume the obvious, and enter the event as "doctor's appt." at the 10:00 am slot in the daily view. The trouble is, I don't look at the daily view, and I have missed a few appointments because I didn't realize what was going on.
My best work-around right now is to use a semi-colon for the time. That way, iCal won't automatically assume I'm talking about a time of day. For example, I now write "10;00am doctor's appt." This way, iCal puts in on the monthly calendar exactly the way I wrote it, like it was doing in Snow Leopard.
Is there a more elegant solution than using semi-colons for the time to counteract iCal's insistence on entering the time automatically into the daily view?

Perhaps users in the iCal forum know of a solution?

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BKBK,
Thank you for your response. That does adequately cover the
client-originated sessions, but still leaves the ability I am
looking for unavailable.
It did serve to definitively answer my most pressing
question, however, with this statement:
Note: ColdFusion cannot create a session if an initiator
application uses a SendGatewayMessage method to start an
interaction with a client, such as an SMS user. In this case, the
sending code must keep track (for example, in a database) of the
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Yes, I did. I posted an identical post in the iPhone forum since no one answered here. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1791145&tstart=0
The first reply solved the problem. It involved the Time Zone setting in iCal Advanced preferences for me.

Why is there a discrepancy in time between iCal on the computer and iCal on the iPhone?

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Check out this discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20813679#20813679

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Every hour in my iCal is Saturday, every event starts at 19:00, every file is stored at 19:00...?

1) Every hour in my iCal has suddenly became marked as "Sat", except Noon
2) Any event I enter to iCal starts at 19:00 regardless of actual time
3) Any file saved on my computer shows "Date Modified" with correct date but time always starts with "19:XX" (the minutes seem correct).
My computer time is correct. I have tried to restart my apps and computer several times but no change.
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Issue solved. I had entered 19: manually to Language & Text > Formats > Times manually to get 24hr format instead of using Apple time fields. Stupid me.

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I made an apointment that is 2 hours and 3 minutes travel time away on my iMac. This is actually transferred to my iPhone correctly.
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I have an iMac Maverick 10.9.1 Currently iCal is set up with the AM/PM format. How do I change it the 24 hour format(i.e. 1800 = 6pm)?

arneomi93,
Quit Calendar, open System Preferences...>Language & Regions>Regions: and set/-re-set the appropriate Region. Also, make sure the "Time format:" in that preference pane is checked for 24-Hour Time.

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