Re: [boost] Re: Date iterators in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-18 Thread John Fuller
On the other hand, "hull" encompasses the idea of a "periodic hull" that can be used for periodic intervals of time... On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 02:39 PM, John Fuller wrote: It also has the advantage of being similar to the use of "makespan" as the time from t

Re: [boost] Re: Date iterators in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-18 Thread John Fuller
It also has the advantage of being similar to the use of "makespan" as the time from the start time of the first job to the completion time of the last job in job scheduling problems. On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 02:18 PM, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote: I suggested it because we write software

Re: [boost] Re: Date iterators in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-18 Thread John Fuller
HL7 v3, a health care application layer specification, uses the term with time intervals as an operation on a totally ordered set that produces the smallest interval that is a superset. For example, hull({[1,5], [7,10]}) == [1,10] The unabridged specification part II available on Dr. Schadow's page