Re: expression of seconds (was Re: A new era for Temporal)

2010-04-11 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Darren Duncan wrote: conceptual and a usability and a math point of view. If users only want the integer value, then they can just store the second as an integer in the first place. As for the name, well whole_second can be made shorter, or its Users will not always

Re: expression of seconds (was Re: A new era for Temporal)

2010-04-09 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Darren Duncan wrote: Dave Rolsky wrote: On a smaller point, I think second vs whole_second is the wrong Huffman coding. I'd think most people want the integer value. Well, whatever you call things, the most important thing is to keep the seconds count as a single number which can do

Re: expression of seconds (was Re: A new era for Temporal)

2010-04-09 Thread Darren Duncan
Jonathan Worthington wrote: Darren Duncan wrote: Dave Rolsky wrote: On a smaller point, I think second vs whole_second is the wrong Huffman coding. I'd think most people want the integer value. Well, whatever you call things, the most important thing is to keep the seconds count as a single

Re: expression of seconds (was Re: A new era for Temporal)

2010-04-09 Thread Jason Switzer
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jonathan Worthington jonat...@jnthn.netwrote: Though even clearer and same number of characters as whole_seconds is: $dt.seconds.round This makes more sense to me than the first example you listed because when dealing with time measurement, I rarely think of