Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Ribbens schrieb: > > So you're deciding that a 'date' is 'the entire of that day', except > > when you subtract two of them, when it suddenly means something else? ;-) > > It makes kinda sense although it looks like a contradiction at first. > > The common linguistic usage of dates in English and German: > "On Saturday" or "On 2007-03-07" is a undefined time anytime on Saturday > or the whole Saturday but Saturday and Sunday are a day apart. It feels > right to me.
That doesn't help much. English is often very vague about times and dates, but computer programs must be have a defined answer. What do you feel "next Tuesday plus 12 hours" means? ;-) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
