resolution of Time in Rev

[Alex Tweedly]

Jon wrote:

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> Alex Tweedly wrote:
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>> <snip>
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>> 2. Unless you need to for some reason I don't see here, don't mess 
>> around with date & time.
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> What I'm trying to do is find a way to express "more than 60 minutes 
> after the most recent time/date stamp" in such a way that it will not 
> fail across noon/midnight boundaries.  In Delphi, all times are just 
> expressed as floating point numbers, where each day is "1", 12 hours 
> is "0.5", etc, so all of these calculations are dead triviall in that 
> situation.  

About as trivial as they are in Rev - use all your times in seconds and 
it's just as easy (or easier - integers instead of floating point 
numbers). If you want to convert them to human-readable date/time you 
can - that's what convert does for you.  But if you just need  to 
compare times, then I find it easier to stick to seconds.

> Ah.  More puns.  So "the seconds" means something different than 
> "seconds".  I guess "the seconds" is what I was looking for all 
> along.  Difficult to spot, since it is more or less a time/date 
> concept masquerading as a time.  But, that said, this simplifies 
> things considerably.
>
In my own code, I would probably use "seconds()" rather than "the 
seconds"  - but it's personal preference; as a classical language 
programmer, I find the function style more readable.

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