[local-time-devel] Questions & minor Clozure CL/OpenMCL issue

[Attila Lendvai]

> That's what I like about Joda-Time's approach; a clear separation between
> intervals (two time-stamps), durations (a duration of time in milliseconds)
> and periods (in terms of 'human' fields; 2 days and 4 hours).
>
> My experience has been that this seems to be a very clean and correct way to
> handle date/time calculations and also maps nicely to ISO 8601
> durations/periods and intervals which are commonly used in databases and XML
> as well.

fwiw, it sounds reasonable to me. although i think we should measure
duration in seconds, the base unit, and rely on lisp's number
support...

and yep, welcome on board! :)

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 attila