On 1/28/01 1:25 AM, "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course, I note that your list is still missing some of the elements that
> *I* requested in the distant past. Some of which include:
> units - minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years
> relativism - this, last, next, thus far, within
>
> This allows for things such as
> Show all tasks due "this week"
> Show all events "thus far" "this year"
>
> It gets a bit trickier when you want to do something like:
> Show all messages received this week
> versus
> Show all messages received last week
> versus
> Show all messages received within the last week
>
> But I think people are more likely to think in those relativistic terms than
> to try and deal with dates greater than foo and less than bar... ;-)
I personally think that what is wrong with this world is too MUCH
relativism! ;-)
Cb
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