[egenix-users] mx.DateTime.DateTimeDeltaFrom

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 05.09.2013 11:21, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On 05.09.2013 11:14, Mihai Ionescu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> First of all, 
>> congratulations for a great library, especially mx.DateTime is for me.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> I was wondering if more parameters could be added to DateTimeDeltaFrom
>> I have in mind: years, months and weeks
>>
>> something like DateTimeDeltaFrom('4 years 5 months 10 weeks') would be very useful for me at least
>>
>> Does it sound useful for you?
> 
> We could add "weeks", but "years" and "months" are not well-defined,
> since they can map to 365/366 days and 29/30/31 days resp.

Correction: months can have lengths 28-31 days :-)

> For those relative deltas, the RelativeDateTime objects are more
> suitable.

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