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author | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-07-19 12:36:01 +0200 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-07-19 12:36:01 +0200 |
commit | ec965fc92cd41f597c6e8e88584b9a688407c8c6 (patch) | |
tree | 410173c14f66ae62a6436ea00b73bb470c9d1dda /doc/bugs/prettydate_with_weekday-date_inconsistency.mdwn | |
parent | 86edd73d169600875a10a635ef8df4a644545b0d (diff) | |
parent | fa2c3a3dba2a4589b63cf445ec9e33ec19be627e (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' into po
Conflicts:
debian/changelog
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/prettydate_with_weekday-date_inconsistency.mdwn b/doc/bugs/prettydate_with_weekday-date_inconsistency.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..430d65a3f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/prettydate_with_weekday-date_inconsistency.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Prettydate creates strings like this: _Last edited in the wee hours of Tuesday night, July 1st, 2009_. However, July 1st is a Wednesday, so either date or Weekday should be modified. In the spirit is probably _Tuesday night, June 30th_. --ulrik + +> The default prettydate times are fairly idiosyncratic to +> how [[Joey]] thinks about time. Specifically, it's still +> Tuesday night until he wakes up Wednesday morning -- which +> could be in the afternoon. :-P But, Joey also realizes +> that dates change despite his weird time sense, and so +> July 1st starts at midnight on Tuesday and continues +> through Tuesday night and part of Wednesday. +> +> (This might not be as idiosyncratic as I make it out to be.. +> I think that many people would agree that in the wee hours +> of New Years Eve, when they're staggering home ahead of +> the burning daylight, the date is already January 1st.) +> +> I think the bug here is that prettydate can't represent +> all views of time. While the times +> of day can be configured, and it's possible to configure it +> to call times after midnight "Wednesday morning, July 1st", +> it is not possible to configure the date or weekday based +> on the time of day. +> +> In order to do so, prettydate's timetable would need to be +> extended to include the "%B %o, %Y" part, and that extended +> to include "%B-", "%o-", and "%Y-" to refer to the day +> before. +> +> --[[Joey]] + +>> fair enough, I think I can get converted to a warped time perspective. --ulrik + +>>> Perhaps we can consider this [[done]], then? --[[smcv]] |