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diff --git a/doc/bugs/prettydate_with_weekday-date_inconsistency.mdwn b/doc/bugs/prettydate_with_weekday-date_inconsistency.mdwn index 40aab55ac..807ba479d 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/prettydate_with_weekday-date_inconsistency.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/prettydate_with_weekday-date_inconsistency.mdwn @@ -1 +1,28 @@ 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]] |