On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 3 Aug 2013 10:25, "Larry Hastings" <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > > > > On 08/02/2013 02:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> > >> "Forward" means what? Earlier or later? > >> (intuitively, I'd say "earlier", but that doesn't seem very consistent > >> with your explanations) > > > > > > Your intuition is the opposite of mine. When I move dates "forward", I > > increase the date / number / etc. So I would move forward from Saturday to > > the next day, Sunday. > > Heh, I'm with Antoine in using "forward/backward" in the sense of "bring > closer/move further away", and hence "earlier/later", when it comes to dates > in the future. > > Yay, English! How on Earth do we ever get anything done in this ridiculous > language? :)
Moving, or "pushing" dates back definitely means "later", at least in my head. Some formal sources agree. For example, http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/push-back: push back: to arrange a later time for something Eli _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
