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From Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
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Subject Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type...
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Silvio <silvio@internet.com> wrote:
> On 10/02/2013 05:12 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> Some example interval of what I'm going to deal with can be
>> described as "tomorrow one (wall-clock)hour earlier". This just
>> isn't the same as in "23 hours" (nor as "82800 seconds").
> What you are describing is not a duration or interval in the general 
> sense but a stylized way of expressing the time between two specific 
> points in time, not unlike a the numerous ways there are for expressing 
> a specific point in time.

Yes, kind of.  I never claimed to expect algebraic field properties.

If I had my way, I'd slow down earth-spin and accellerate it's movement
around the sun, until we reach an exact 100 days year. ;-)
My days are all too short, anyway... (that's why I'm writing this at 2am)

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Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-01 17:29 +0000
  Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-10-01 11:11 -0700
    Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-10-01 11:22 -0700
      Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-01 19:51 -0400
      Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-10-02 09:23 +0200
        Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-02 14:42 +0000
          Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-10-03 07:57 +0200
            Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-03 20:44 -0400
              Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-10-05 04:22 +0200
          Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-10-16 19:43 +0200
  Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2013-10-01 21:54 +0200
    Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-02 15:02 +0000
  Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-10-01 22:04 +0200
  Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-01 19:53 -0400
    Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-02 15:12 +0000
      Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2013-10-02 23:25 +0300
        Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-02 23:56 +0000
          Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2013-10-03 17:18 +0300
            Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-03 18:54 +0000
              Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2013-10-03 23:53 +0300
      Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-10-02 23:03 +0200
        Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-03 00:04 +0000
      Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-02 21:36 -0400
        Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-03 21:41 -0400
          Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-04 09:17 +0000
            Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-04 20:52 -0400

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