Time format

Frank mailinglists at lavabit.com
Wed Aug 24 11:28:06 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 21:50 +0100, Colin Law wrote:

> > So if you say, for example, 1½ day, you always mean 36 hours?
> 
> 1½ days does mean 36 hours

Customer: "How long does it take to complete that work?"

Plumber/carpenter/worker: "I need 1½ day of work"

1½ day = 12 hours (assuming 1 day of work = 8 hours)

:-)







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