Hello!
20.07.2016, 17:59, "John Benediktsson" <mrj...@gmail.com>:
I think the reason there is no "normalize" is because duration can have months and years and those mean different things depending on what timestamp they are relative to.
I don't quite understand. Are you talking about the different number of seconds in different years? If that's the case, then we are indeed screwed.
I'm proposing to only normalize the part of duration that deals with seconds, minutes, hours and days. Maybe with a warning about leap years and such in the documentation. If we agree that days are always 24*60*60 seconds long, then we can put all the overflow into days and be done with it. That's all the normalization I need. Everything above days would be subjected to days-in-month and other limitations, which are only usefully known when applied to the specific timestamps with time+ and time-.
Maybe if days can have different lengths (I'm not an expert in this), then can we at least state that hours are 60*60 seconds long?
Maybe normalize-time would be a better name.
Agreed on localization, someone we also need for number printing. It just hasn't been built yet.
Oh, I'm so glad that's not in yet, because I prefer to have consistent formatting to one that's always localized. One of the pitfalls I happened to step into (and some of my fellow developers discussed same issue but a few months ago) is storing numbers in a text file, and then failing to load them properly due to comma vs. dot as the decimal separator on source vs. target PCs. That presentation-level stuff needs to be purposely activated on the outer layers of the system, not automatically enforced in the core. That's my opinion.
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