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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:20:30 +1100
Subject: Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> wrote:
> There are,
> as I see it, two common cases where t is negative:
>
>   -1 day < t < 0
>
> and
>
>   t <= -1 day

There are two types of negative numbers: Those closer to zero than -1,
and those not closer to zero than -1. Yeah, I think those are the most
common cases. :)

ChrisA