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Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:55:25 +0000

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By: Simon Geard

Simon Geard — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:11:10 +0000

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

Calum Benson — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:26:12 +0000

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: M�rten Woxberg

M�rten Woxberg — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:15:49 +0000

We should at least use international date and time conventions not the US ones.

By: Andreas Nilsson

Andreas Nilsson — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:44:11 +0000

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: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:52:46 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. This is definitely high on my own wishlist for future Gnome versions.

Having one method of describing time across the entire desktop would be fantastic - Gaim away time, calendar events, downloads, file copy/move, rendering time, gimp operations etc. Fantastic.

By: This is not a mundane detail, Michael. » Fuzzy Dates

This is not a mundane detail, Michael. » Fuzzy Dates — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

[…] Fuzzy Dates
Filed under: General — Mike @ 12:18 am

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