On Tue, 05.02.13 12:42, Dave (d...@flex.com.au) wrote: > > In the year 2013, of the month of February, on the 4th day, Larry Baker > wrote: > > What about "2012-02~4" (leave off the "-")? Thus, "-" implies day (days > > from the start) of the month, "~" implies days from the end of the month. > > Nice. I like this one. Simple, neat, and feels right. The tilde is > significantly different, that I can tell at a glance it's not a standard > date format, yet similar enough that it feels like one.
Yeah, this syntax looks OK to me too. I have now added a TODO list item suggesting this syntax. > > Should both notations have the same "1" base? That is, "*-*-1" is the > > first day of the month. Is "*-*~1" the last day of the month? Or, is "~" > > a delta, so that "*-*~0" is the last day of the month? > > A delta makes sense from a mathematical perspective, but intuitively, > "~1" leaps out at me as last-day-of-month, "~2" as second last day, etc. This syntax is supposed to be readable before anything else, hence i'd propose ~1 as last day of the month, ~2 as second last day, and so on. "2012-02-0" and "2012-02~0" should result in parse failures. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
