On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:13, howard.brazee wrote:
My take is that the best way to deal with it is to write my programs to
recognize that not everybody will make the same assumptions on what 12:00
AM means.
Yours seems to be to assume that one irrational choice is more preferred
than the other irrational choice, and that once this is done, we won't have
to worry about results.
Ah, well, in the specific case of software development, I, too,
rigidly parse and check all inputs for valid syntax, rejecting any
that do not conform to the governing specification.
However, in the general case of how to interpret, for example,
a sign which says, "No parking from 12AM to 12PM", rejecting
the input does not help.
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