- From: Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 10:56:01 -0700
- To: "Walter H." <Walter.H@mathemainzel.info>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
> On Mar 19, 2017, at 9:09 AM, Walter H. <Walter.H@mathemainzel.info> wrote: > >> if you interpret 'end' as the time when something ceases, not the last instant inside the interval. > the end of something is the opposite from the beginning ... > when the beginning is included, than the end has also been included ... > > we are talking of intervals like > ]begin;end[ > or > [begin;end] > and never of intervals like > [begin;end[ > or > ]begin;end] I used precise notation from interval mathematics, where square brackets mean inclusive, and round parentheses mean exclusive. > as I said before: talk of sophisticated after having understood the basics ... These issues cannot be coherently understood using colloquial terms. Monday-Friday typically means [Monday,Friday], but 2pm-3pm typically means [2pm,3pm). there is no standard across all applications that requires displaying intervals using any particular convention. And application display is out of scope here. Joe
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