[email protected], le Sun 13 Nov 2011 07:00:40 +1000, a écrit : > Greetings. I don't like to intervene in this, but ... > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > It seems to me that people usually just look at minutes, > > not seconds, and would thus accept 4:30:59 as "exactly" > > half past four, but not 4:29:01. > > I'm sorry, this belief that 4:30:59.999999 is closer to > 4:30 than to 4:31,
I never said that. > that's not right at all, not at all. > If "exact" means +/- 2 sec, then 4:30:59 would qualify as > "exactly 4:31", and 4:29:01 would qualify as "exactly 4:29". flite_time does not want to talk about 4:31, but only 4:30, or 4:35, but not in between. > (IMHO, if by "exact" you mean "to the nearest minute", > then it's more helpful to say "4:30", which helpfully > hints that you are measuring to the nearest minute.) flite_time wants to mean "exact to the nearest 5 minutes". Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
