Unit Intervals

[Philippe Verdy]

The term "interval" is badly chosen in what he describes; Cameron actually
wants to express periodicity (without any implied start or end; i.e. only
the frequency).
However his description is limited to multiples of a base time unit; but he
forgets submultiples :
e.g. "twice a week" vs. "every two weeks"
The intended usage could include displying an interface for controling a
task scheduler (such as the shell command "at"); or adding a repeated event
in a personal calendar.
I suggest he looks into exisitng interface for personal calendars (in
smartphones for example) or help pages for programmed schedulers ("at",
"cron", Task Manager in Windows; etc.).


2014-12-10 7:43 GMT+01:00 Yury Tarasievich <yury.tarasievich at gmail.com>:

> Dealing with similar problem right now, I'd note that "interval" would
> primarily mean a pair "startvalue, endvalue" with some formatting to it.
> That formatting isn't even "widely" cultural tradition, but "narrow"
> typographic convention, with possibly quite extensive definition, subject
> to change. E.g., for numbers intervals in Russian language typography,
> there are "..." and "--" (U+2013) and "---" (U+2014); of course, the "-"
> (dash) is commonly used; formerly, the U+00F7 was prescribed; in maths
> related text you'd meet ":" and ", ... ,;"; in bastardised "computer
> spelling" -- ".." (two dots). And it is context related, too (U+2013 for
> dates, U+2014 or ellipsis for numbers).
>
> How to formalise all this into CLDR? Or I may have misunderstood you
> completely :)
>
> Yury
>
> On 12/10/2014 01:56 AM, Cameron Dutro wrote:
>
>> I took a look through CLDR data this afternoon
>> looking for a way to consistently format what I
>> call "unit intervals" in multiple languages. It
>>
> ...
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