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Sat Mar 10 13:44:09 CET 2007 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/071825.html

Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> 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? ;-)

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