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Re: datetime enhancements

To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: datetime enhancements
From: fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:56:15 -0500
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In-reply-to: <53050D07.8080206@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Ken McDonell's message of "Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:59:03 +1100")
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kenj wrote:

> [...]
>> Where does the logic come in that additive or subtractive
>> time intevals would need to be relative to the (archive?)
>> start/end times vs. the actual current time?
>
> It has always been so when the context is an archive ... Stan's output
> is from a formative QA test where an archive context is the only thing
> that is deterministic.

Understood.  One can also see a need also to use relative-to-now types
of queries against archives, like "play back stats X from exactly 24
hours ago"; would that be covered by the -O/-S "@TIMESTR" syntax?

- FChE

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