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Subject: Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)
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On Mar 26, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> The point of my post was that there is no obvious one best way to
> present negative timedeltas in a human readable form.

I agree that there are a number of possible representations which might =
make sense.  But, using negative days and positive hours:minutes:seconds =
is just bizarre.  I can't think of any possible application where that =
would be the desired format.


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