Re: Scaled or Granular Dates

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:22:56 GMT
Message-ID: <QJAMb.33516$nt4.66459@attbi_s51>

"Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in message news:btub5q$jg2$1_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com...
> "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
> news:MbBLb.7894$I06.51088_at_attbi_s01...
> > "Pat Turner" <purpletrousers_at_netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:z%TKb.153$M4.119_at_newsr2.u-net.net...
> > >
> > > Somebody might say, that the latter dates are really periods that should
> > > be recorded as two dates: They are periods but then again, aren't all
> > > date/times. There is no way of recording an instant in time as there is
> > > always a higher level of accuracy that exists, but cannot be measured.
> >
> > This isn't quite right. Yes, you're getting at real issues: precision and
> intervals,
> > but it's overgeneralizing to say there's no such thing as a point in time.
> >
> > As an example: the midnight that comes between 2003 and 2004 is a
> > point in time, not an interval.

> From this article titled "Ground-breaking work in understanding of time"
> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/icc-gwi072703.php

The first paragraph was pretty funny, but after that it just went kinda flat.

Marshall Received on Mon Jan 12 2004 - 11:22:56 CST