[DB-SIG] ODMG Date/time classes
Magnus Lycka
magnus.lycka@tripnet.se
Thu, 18 Dec 1997 23:22:04 +0100
Jeffrey C. Jacobs wrote:
>Specifically,
>
> "(130 sec) % (1 min)" =>
> "(130 sec) % 60" =>
> "10 sec".
But what about "(5 days) % (2 integer)" ? It seems intuitive that the 'unit'
here would be 'days', but what we are doing is just (432000 sec) % (2 integer)
which is not 2 days, but 2.5 days.
Magnus
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