Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 3 05:13:25 CEST 2013

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On 3 Aug 2013 10:25, "Larry Hastings" <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
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> On 08/02/2013 02:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
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>> "Forward" means what? Earlier or later?
>> (intuitively, I'd say "earlier", but that doesn't seem very consistent
>> with your explanations)
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> Your intuition is the opposite of mine.  When I move dates "forward", I
increase the date / number / etc.  So I would move forward from Saturday to
the next day, Sunday.

Heh, I'm with Antoine in using "forward/backward" in the sense of "bring
closer/move further away", and hence "earlier/later", when it comes to
dates in the future.

Yay, English! How on Earth do we ever get anything done in this ridiculous
language? :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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