On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:30:54PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 08:07:45PM +0400, Alexey Khlyamkov wrote: > > I decided to agree with Glenn at the first time. But after some > > thinking became to the following. Time and time difference have the > > same meaning in phisical terms. But lftp use term "time" as calendar > > term but not phisical one. Difference between two calendar times is > > exactly phisical time. In contrary to Alexander's observation, time > > difference can be converted to human readable form but by different > > way because it does not have starting point. > > It's true that "amount of time" and "time" are difference concepts, but > not only can they both be represented the same way, this is widely > practiced and accepted.
That's correct. But human readable form is really different for those. E.g. there is ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS, but time difference is not usually represented in this form, because it rarely exceeds one year. Even if it were represented in such a way, nobody would like 1970-01-01 00:00:01 for one-second time interval. -- Alexander.
