Unit Intervals

[Cameron Dutro]

Hey Philippe,

Yes, you're absolutely right, periodicity is a much better description of
what I'm after. How would looking at the interfaces for personal calendars
or help pages for schedulers like cron be helpful? I'm looking for
translations for said units - I'm not interested in actually scheduling
events.

-Cameron

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> 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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