YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 27/03/2014 01:38, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.8597.1395883727.18130.python-list at python.org>,
>   Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Steven D'Aprano
>> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>>> If an event happened 30 hours ago, it is correct to say that it occurred
>>> "18 hours after 2 days ago", but who talks that way?
>>
>> That response demonstrates real genius. Rue the datetime? Who talks like that?
>
> "I had a dangling pointer error, and blew my stack to half past last
> wednesday"
>

IIRC the Germans (possibly amongst others) would say that as half to 
last thursday, or is that thurstag? :)

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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