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It's probably more useful to think of recurring intervals as specifying an instant plus a period until the recurring instant. Cron jobs, for example, use such
by randallsquared 6y ago
It's probably more useful to think of recurring intervals as specifying an instant plus a period until the recurring instant. Cron jobs, for example, use such a concept. If you want to specify how long some event starting at that instant should be, you can use a separate non-recurring interval to show that. In this frame, "how often should we start the budget meeting" and "how long should the budget meeting be" are separate questions and not discoverable with a single answer.
- jolmg 6y agoIt seems obvious now that you've clarified it. :P Thanks. Though the name is a bit misleading. Maybe it should be called "recurring instants" instead. I can now agree that it seems to be nicely thought out, flexible without being overly complicated. However, just like how the duration of the event can be a separate question, so too can the duration between instants and the number of repeats. I think this would be the main reason why it's not widely adopted. There just doesn't seem to be much of a need for a standard representation of durations or recurring intervals/instants.