Uhmn... Please lighten up a bit Edouard.
Of course it's not as simple as changing the list items in the Prefs dialog.
I know that, Stu knows that, and I would have thought you would have known that. My bad for making it sound trivial. But I thnk we can trust his priorities and not worry about anything being delayed by my extremely minor and personal wants.
The PHP 'fix'
is trivial. I simply placed the WC STATS tag in a "strtolower(
string)" PHP built in function call. I suspect even AppleScript has the same built in function. WC automagically replaces the tags with the help:mm PM or AM text and when the edited file gets uploaded, the PHP function does its magic and the "echo" places the changed string in the HTML the browser sees/displays. Not even necessary to make a request to include any PHP files/scripts.
It could be done in the templates most people use, if that template wasn't already doing this conversion it its own set up. Since I don't use any site-wide, prebuilt template, I just do it where I want it.
The "problem" is that it's only this simple when the "am/PM" is a separate WC tag. The "CU$" tag builds those last two characters into the Date/Time output, not as a separate item. Using just the strtolower on that string will also make the first letter of the month into a lower case character (may 30, 2016 4:56 pm). OTOH, it's always the last two characters of the string that 'need' the case change. So all that's required, in that case, is to simply change the case of the last two characters. A bit more work, but the built in functions are there.
Probably 99.8% of WC users don't care about this detail. There may even be some grammatical rule that claims these letters should be CAPITALS. And 50% of the other folks don't even notice! Of the .1%, there may only be half who would make use of this change! So that leaves .05% of WC users who just might actually use this capability. I can't see Stu spending much time on it... Relax!
The easiest thing would be to write a page with basically nothing but all the WC tags I use and let WC upload just that one file. Then PHP can manipulate the text and create every variable used in the site. That similar, I think, to what at least one template does now.
Frankly, I am hoping that my request at least brought a smile for the he Dev!