[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Philipp A.]

2014-03-06 6:34 GMT+01:00 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:

> The point of having time objects as an abstraction is
> so that you *don't* have to think of them as an offset
> from anything. You simply think of them as times.


but times *are* offsets from midnight (24h clock) or midnight and noon (12h
clock)

1 o’clock = 1 hour after midnight

12 o’clock pm = 12 hours after noon

they are essentially radial coordinates – and radial coordinates do have a
0 point.
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