Rob Speer on 9 Feb 2002 00:18:52 -0000


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Re: spoon-discuss: the Clock is there for a reason...


On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:01:23PM -0500, Eric Gerlach wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Rob Speer wrote:
> > Ah ha. Would someone remind me why we made ndays one-based? Nday 7
> > should be three days before the end of the week, not nday 8.
> 
> Because the weeks were one based and the says were zero-based, and people
> were complaining about it?  I'll admit, it was my proposal... but we all
> voted for it, didn't we?

I didn't.

I don't see why one-based nweeks would be a problem. The nweeks never
"start over". The displayed "nweek 0", the original ruleset, has no
ndays. So there's no reason to consider the starting value for nweeks
and ndays simultaneously.

-- 
Rob Speer