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[python-committers] Reminder: Python 3.4 alpha 1 release is Saturday August 3

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Sat Aug 3 05:50:31 CEST 2013 
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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> Yay, English! How on Earth do we ever get anything done in this ridiculous language? :)

Moving, or "pushing" dates back definitely means "later", at least in
my head. Some formal sources agree. For example,
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/push-back:

push back: to arrange a later time for something

Eli
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