> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > To me a day is precisely 24 hours, no more, no less.
Start with this line. Then proceed: On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > My cashflow forecast doesn't give two hoots how many hours there are in two > weeks, which I've defined elsewhere. It doesn't care if the time changes. > Neither does it care how many days there are in a month for that matter. It > can even cater with plotting data with a tick on the 29th of each month when > we have a leap year and February is included in the plot, thanks to the > dateutils rrule. Okay. So you do *not* care that a day be, or not be, 24 hours. Your code cares about days, and does not care if one of them happens to be 23 or 25 hours long. That's what's going on. To you, a day is *one day*, and has no correlation to 24 hours, 86400 seconds, 86,400,000 milliseconds, or the radiation period of caesium. That's a perfectly acceptable standpoint, but you MUST acknowledge that this is incompatible with the equally-acceptable standpoint that "1 day" == "24 hours". You cannot have both. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
