Comments on: Small Details: Date http://www.tigert.com/2004/11/23/small-details-date/ um, what do I write here? Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:17:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tigert.com | my life and stuff » Blog Archive » Hula thoughts.. http://www.tigert.com/2004/11/23/small-details-date/comment-page-1/#comment-678 tigert.com | my life and stuff » Blog Archive » Hula thoughts.. Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:55:25 +0000 http://tigert.gimp.org/log/archives/2004/11/23/small-details-date/#comment-678 [...] ents in a list fashion which would show, say, a few days in advance. Or, like in my recent pondering about date views and history and how to represent them - one could have & [...] [...] ents in a list fashion which would show, say, a few days in advance. Or, like in my recent pondering about date views and history and how to represent them – one could have & [...]

]]> By: Simon Geard http://www.tigert.com/2004/11/23/small-details-date/comment-page-1/#comment-218 Simon Geard Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:11:10 +0000 http://tigert.gimp.org/log/archives/2004/11/23/small-details-date/#comment-218 Calum - that's a good point, and it can be more complicated that that too. My personal understanding is based on a week starting Monday rather than a seven day cycle, interpreting "next $day" as "$day next week", so that while "next Monday" would be the first Monday after the current date, "next Friday" would be the second Friday. Tuomas - I agree, the human readable dates currently in Evolution are good. Though they avoid the mess Calum raises by simply dealing with "Today" and "Yesterday" as abstracts, then falling back on "Mon", "Tue", etc, then falling back on date/month, etc. Not sure if that code handles the future - it's not like you expect to get emails from two-weeks-from-now... Calum – that’s a good point, and it can be more complicated that that too. My personal understanding is based on a week starting Monday rather than a seven day cycle, interpreting “next $day” as “$day next week”, so that while “next Monday” would be the first Monday after the current date, “next Friday” would be the second Friday.

Tuomas – I agree, the human readable dates currently in Evolution are good. Though they avoid the mess Calum raises by simply dealing with “Today” and “Yesterday” as abstracts, then falling back on “Mon”, “Tue”, etc, then falling back on date/month, etc. Not sure if that code handles the future – it’s not like you expect to get emails from two-weeks-from-now…

]]> By: Calum Benson http://www.tigert.com/2004/11/23/small-details-date/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Calum Benson Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:26:12 +0000 http://tigert.gimp.org/log/archives/2004/11/23/small-details-date/#comment-217 If only it were that easy... even "Next Monday" means different things to different people who speak the same language! In Scotland, it usually means a week on Monday, and the first Monday after today would be "this Monday"... but in other parts of the UK, "next Monday" means "this Monday" :) If only it were that easy… even “Next Monday” means different things to different people who speak the same language! In Scotland, it usually means a week on Monday, and the first Monday after today would be “this Monday”… but in other parts of the UK, “next Monday” means “this Monday” :)

]]> By: Mårten Woxberg http://www.tigert.com/2004/11/23/small-details-date/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Mårten Woxberg Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:15:49 +0000 http://tigert.gimp.org/log/archives/2004/11/23/small-details-date/#comment-216 We should at least use international date and time conventions not the US ones. We should at least use international date and time conventions not the US ones.

]]> By: Andreas Nilsson http://www.tigert.com/2004/11/23/small-details-date/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Andreas Nilsson Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:44:11 +0000 http://tigert.gimp.org/log/archives/2004/11/23/small-details-date/#comment-215 Yes, very good suggestion! I can never keep track of dates (I would be lost without the gnome clock applet), but I know when next monday is. - Andreas Yes, very good suggestion!
I can never keep track of dates (I would be lost without the gnome clock applet), but I know when next monday is.
- Andreas

]]> By: This is not a mundane detail, Michael. » Fuzzy Dates http://www.tigert.com/2004/11/23/small-details-date/comment-page-1/#comment-219 This is not a mundane detail, Michael. » Fuzzy Dates Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://tigert.gimp.org/log/archives/2004/11/23/small-details-date/#comment-219 [...] Fuzzy Dates Filed under: General — Mike @ 12:18 am It seems that <a href="http://tigert.gimp.org/log/archives/2004/11/23/small-details-date/">this gnome hacker</a> is an advocate of “human language” dates. We we [...] [...] Fuzzy Dates
Filed under: General — Mike @ 12:18 am

It seems that this gnome hacker is an advocate of “human language” dates. We we [...]

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