In
<CAPD5F5q14Cf+DXY3KF7hV7TGqt1S9irb5-EHdBEFJHTd89S=c...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 10/18/2011
at 12:29 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>I would not write a program that had embedded in it the heroic
>assumption that a time value was a time value for some current day
>(bad) and time zone (worse), and I do not really think that Shmuel
>would do so either.
The assumption that the time a user keyed in is meant as his local
time is hardly heroic, and if a user typed in a request to do
something at a specific time I wouldn't demand that he type in the
date.
>Computer-system 'human interfaces', on the other hand,
>must be explicit and as unambiguous as we can make them.
Unambiguous, yes. Explicit, no. Computers should work for us, not vice
versa.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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