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Sure, I'd just offer the fundamental difficulty is date/time is a sum of "trivial" problems like this. That a date by itself and a time by itself can be "moment
by joe_the_user 5y ago
Sure, I'd just offer the fundamental difficulty is date/time is a sum of "trivial" problems like this. That a date by itself and a time by itself can be "moments in time" is just one of many difficulties around date-time. IE, none of the particularities (other examples being the irregularities of legal month/day combinations) seem "conceptual".
- layer8 5y agoThe relevant conceptual difficulties are the distinction between calendar dates plus time-of-day on the one hand vs. physical time (number of actual seconds) on the other hand, and the way they relate to each other via time zones, DST and leap seconds. To a lesser degree, also the fact that months have different lengths, and cultural differences like start of the week, week numbers etc., and finally date formatting. Most of these are really conceptually tied to time keeping. How to create an unambiguous syntax really isn’t.