[Zope3-dev] Dates and times

Steve Alexander steve@cat-box.net
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:08:44 +0000


Guido van Rossum wrote:

> [Steve Alexander]
>
> >My date says this:
> >
> >[steve@localhost]$ date -d '2000-01-31 + 1 month'
> >Thu Mar  2 00:00:00 UTC 2000
> >
> >I don't think it is very helpful to add precedented precision to a 
> datetime.
>
>                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I've never heard of this.  What is it?


It is a typo for "unprecedented precision", by which I intended to mean 
"precision that didn't previously exist in the system".

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Steve Alexander