Time read from phone randomly switches between 24-hour and 12-hour time (AI1)

[GavinGT]

My app uses the blocks Clock1.FormatTime>Clock1.Now to fetch the current time of day from the phone. However, when a user has his phone set to 24-hour time (on some devices running 5.1.1) the time that gets fetched randomly alternates between the 24-hour representation and the 12-hour representation. So one instant it might report 8:34, and then the next it will report 20:34. 

I'm on App Inventor Classic here. Anyone else experience this or know what to do about it?

[Ghica]

Switch to AI2! There is a conversion tool that works mostly fine.

http://convert.appinventor.mit.edu/

Cheers, Ghica.

[GavinGT]

The only problem is my app is gigantic. Lots of it doesn't convert correctly, plus AI2 isn't as good with large projects. Also, I don't know if the Play store would even accept the APK.

[Taifun]

App Inventor Classic has been shut down in July 2015. Your only possibility to continue is to convert the project into App Inventor 2, see also http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/classic.html

Also follow these recommendations

•            Using Images with App Inventor
•            Building apps with many screens
•         Uploading Your Apps to Google Play            

Taifun

[GavinGT]

I'm using AILiveComplete v1.34, which enables me to continue using AI classic.

[Italo]

So I guess there's no way to fetch AM or PM from instant? 

[GavinGT]

My solution for this is to concatenate Clock1.Hour_Clock1.Now with Clock1.Minute_Clock1.Now, and adding a 0 if minutes are less than 10. This always provides a 24-hour result that is immune to the random switching, so then I just provide an option within the app to switch between 12-hour time and 24-hour time.