On 3 Aug 2013 10:25, "Larry Hastings" <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > > On 08/02/2013 02:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >> "Forward" means what? Earlier or later? >> (intuitively, I'd say "earlier", but that doesn't seem very consistent >> with your explanations) > > > Your intuition is the opposite of mine. When I move dates "forward", I increase the date / number / etc. So I would move forward from Saturday to the next day, Sunday.
Heh, I'm with Antoine in using "forward/backward" in the sense of "bring closer/move further away", and hence "earlier/later", when it comes to dates in the future. Yay, English! How on Earth do we ever get anything done in this ridiculous language? :) Cheers, Nick. > > > /arry > > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers >
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