Re: clock scan (once again)
- From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 03 Jul 2008 08:26:30 GMT
Kevin Kenny <kennykb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
This doesn't address the question, why "clock scan" was changedUhm, because it's a bug?
to *not* do the right thing anymore in that particular case, which
to me seems highly orthogonal to all the restructuring.
(correct me if I'm wrong here!)
I vaguely remembered some discussion about this change in clock scan,
(but wasn't able to find it in google for clock scan groups:comp.lang.tcl)
That's why I didn't really hold on to the "bug"-hypothesis. :-)
I'd have to review both the 8.4 code and the 8.4 documentationI hope for the latter, of course, now that it bit me.
(and maybe go back even further) to decide whether it's an 8.4
bug that I fixed, or an 8.5 bug that I introduced. At the moment,
I suspect that it's the latter.
8.5 docu says (section FREE FORM SCAN):
"If the -base flag is specified, the next argument should contain an
integer clock value. Only the date in this value is used, not
the time. This is useful for determining the time on a specific
day or doing other date-relative conversions."
This doesn't really make sense to me, because it isn't always true:
unless >=day-units are added, the time *is* taken from the base,
and even more it seems to contradict the last sentence of this
quotation.
Don't assume malice where incompetence is an adequate explanation.
Malice isn't the only alternative to incompetence in this scenario,
afterall. There could have existed other reasons for changing, even
if I deny the possibility of those :-)
.
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