[Python-Dev] Negative timedelta strings
Fred Drake
fred at fdrake.net
Fri Mar 28 22:52:24 CET 2014
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> ISO 8601 doesn't seem to define a representation for
> negative durations, though, so it wouldn't solve the
> original problem.
Aside from the horribleness of the ISO 8601 notation for a duration, it's
best not to confuse the notions of duration and delta. Notionally, a delta
contains more information than a duration.
-Fred
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