From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T22:42:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Time interval

On Sep 27, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Pit Capitain wrote:
> Recently I've been representing time intervals by two numbers:  
> months and seconds. With this representation it is possible to  
> differentiate between "1 year" and "365 days":
>
>   1 year = 12 months (and 0 seconds)
>   365 days = (0 months and) 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 seconds

While precise, I claim that that's not very human-friendly.

"How long ago did I receive this email?"
"20160 seconds"
"Whaaaa? Is that long or short?"
"Er, I meant 2 weeks"
"Oh, thanks."