ihope on Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:13:59 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [s-d] [s-b] Phil's request to join


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Jamie Dallaire <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah it's a little confusing. But look at the example in the rules that
> clarifies the meaning of this. It says that if it is the middle of nday 2
> and something is set to happen "in 2 ndays", then it happens at the end of
> nday 4. So really what happens is that we get to the end of nday 2, and then
> 2 consecutive 24 hours pass (each sweeping through one 00:00 UTC) before "2
> ndays" are supposed to have been elapsed. Therefore your join request on
> Tuesday goes into effect at the end of Thursday.

No. The Joining and Leaving rule says rdays, not ndays. They are not
the same thing, and they act differently; in particular, a duration in
rdays will usually be one day less than the same duration in ndays.

--Ivan Hope CXXVII
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