New DMIs on the JLE?

I can not answer the specific point, but in general yes we do fit new LED arrays within existing housings. There is a small workshop on the Acton site that does this sort of work, although I do not know if they were involved here.

Also, don't forget there is a progressive drift of COTS equipment through obsolesence. COTS electronics kit these days rarely has a OEM production life of more than 1-2 years, and new stock shelf life more than 5 years until depleted. In some cases there might only have ever been one single production run. So even without any other driver like need to upgrade sign information, these things will change over time. The LED arrays are COTS built up within the housing; the latter may be COTS or maybe bespoke I do not know.

COTS = commercial off the shelf

But are you sure about what I do in my day job ?

I'd better not say any more.

It’s the pressure.

It gets to them.

I agree with some of the comments re: block capitals. I much prefer this style. Some of the Northern line boards still have these.

I am surprised they didn't take the opportunity to correct the "mins" on the updated Jubilee line board to "min". The new Bank platform has this format, and is currently the only LU board to have dropped the 's'. The DLR and Elizabeth line displays also use "mins" but the LO and bus DMIs use "min". I know it sounds minor, but I for one find "mins" looks a little clunky and a tad amateur given unit abbreviations are not meant to be pluralised.

Depends what they are trying to do - follow a standard or not.

min is correct if, it is a symbol, not an abbreviation, and following international standards.

SI recognise the minute beyond defined and derived units, and ISO 31 specifies min.

As far as an abbreviation as opposed to symbol is concerned, AFAIK there is no definition, and I'm not going to get debate that other than that if there is no definition there can be no hard view on it.

If it is supposed to be a symbol, then symbols follow the rules of arithmetic not the rules of grammar; symbols do not change on pluralisation; therefore programmers who put 's' into plurals are wrong, should not be there in the first place to remove; min is correct symbol for single and multiple minutes. And with a space between the quantity and symbol. (Applies in all cases of all symbols for all units of all quantities.)

IMHO once you start to follow standards e.g. visibility for impaired persons, then you can't pick and choose which standards to follow and which to ignore; and if there is not one (for abbreviations) then follow the most applicable (in this case use symbols). And often one standard assumes or references other standards, and so on.

As someone whose eyesight is not perfect (and probably needs new glasses) I prefer "mins" as it makes it easier to distinguish 1 minute from multiple minutes.

Well the TfL Corporate style guide says not to pluralise unit symbols, so if this extends to DMIs then they are in breech. That being said, provided the information is understandable by the masses, it's probably not worth updating for the sake of it. All I'm thinking is if they are going to take the trouble to modify the JLE screens, they might as well drop the "s" on "min" as it will probably only take a few secs (see what I did there!) to do so, and would at least be in keeping with their own style guide.

For some reason the DMIs on Euston platforms 8-11 national rail have the time's seconds digits in bold and the hours and minutes in non-bold. I can't figure that one out at all.

My local station has two analogue clocks plus a digital clock at the bottom of the departure board.

All three display different times.

To be fair, as it travels up and down so much through a gravity well, you have to take relativity into account.

Well I live there and I can tell the time.

Anyway, perhaps it's best we get back on topic please?