On Sat, 13 Jul 2003, Rick Measham wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Ben Bennett wrote:
> > Does it understand 1/3/2003? If so, how does it resolve the day and
> > month ambiguity?
>
>
> On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 12:46, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> > Ideally, it'd be an attribute of the locale. I bet we could fi
> On Sat, 13 Jul 2003, Rick Measham wrote:
> > Dave, the 'locale' parameter will take an object or a name (just like DT
> > itself does IIRC). From this we get the standard formats understood in
> > that locale. However if we construct using language=>'EN', then we set
> > the standard short format
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Rick Measham wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 17:09, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> > Now I'm confused. Are you proposing that there be a language parameter
> > _and_ a locale parameter?
>
> Hmmm .. well I was going to make it a case of 'use one or the other',
> but on second thoughts
Rick Measham wrote:
In fact the only unsolvable I've had so far is with a phrase like "It
was twelve fifteen". This could mean it was the year 1215 or that it was
a quarter past 12. Deciding which seems to be impossible!
Except that I think, in colloquial English at least, no one refers to the year
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 03:07, John Peacock wrote:
> Rick Measham wrote:
> > In fact the only unsolvable I've had so far is with a phrase like "It
> > was twelve fifteen". This could mean it was the year 1215 or that it was
> > a quarter past 12. Deciding which seems to be impossible!
>
> Except tha
* John Peacock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [14 Jul 2003 03:07]:
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> Except that I think, in colloquial English at least, no
> one refers to the year as "twelve fifteen" except
> verbally. I'll be very interested in seeing your module...
So it's a possibility if we were parsing reported speech?
Perso
Rick Measham wrote:
Except that I think, in colloquial English at least, no one refers to the year
as "twelve fifteen" except verbally.
OK, is "It was nineteen forty-seven" 1947-00-00 or 19:47:00?
The latter. As I said, the only instance of using spelled out years that I can
imagine in norma
