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Re: Temporal database - no end date

From: DBMS_Plumber <paul_geoffrey_brown_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 21 Jan 2007 14:17:20 -0800
Message-ID: <1169417840.155054.213080@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 






Marshall wrote:



> Why can't we do the same for time? Why can't we "adopt as a unit

> the notion of a [chronon], and make the assumption that quantities in

> this 'unit' can be real numbers."




 By definition (DDL's explicitly, in this context), a chronon (and a
quanta) is "indivisible".



 Besides - given your description, what does"chronon" add? Just use the
units.
Received on Sun Jan 21 2007 - 16:17:20 CST












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