Re: relative time

Yes, I agree some of the current NS prefs are naïve linguistically. I 
was giving them more as examples of what we'd like to be able to do at 
the UI level, as opposed to the linguistically correct approach. :-)

I don't think anything on Mac OS X currently uses the "time of day" 
stuff (noon, dinnertime, etc.). I think the idea with those is that not 
just the names, but also the times themselves are locale-specific.

Japanese also has the day before yesterday, ototoi, written おととい or 一昨日.

Deborah

On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 03:55  PM, Mark Davis wrote:

> I saw your bugs for 3046 and 2895. Those do sound like useful
> capabilities, and I have seen them in other places than on the Mac,
> also. You suggest:
>
> NSEarlierTimeDesignations (modify NSYearMonthWeekDesignations) (e.g.,
> "prior"
> (year), "last" (month), "past" (week), "ago" (day))
> NSHourNameDesignations  times of day (e.g., (0, midnight), (12, noon,
> lunch),
> (10, morning), (14, afternoon), (19, dinner))
> NSLaterTimeDesignations (like "Earlier", above) (e.g., "next")
> NSNextDayDesignations ("tomorrow")
> NSNextNextDayDesignations ("day after tomorrow") ("asatte" in
> Japanese)
> NSPriorDayDesignations ("yesterday")
> NSThisDayDesignations ("today")
> NSYearMonthWeekDesignations ("year", "month", "week")
>
> Some observations:
> - The names for the date fields look useful, as well as the the XDays
> - German has both what corresponds to the day after tomorrow
> (uebermorgan, roughly 'overmorrow') but also the day before yesterday
> (vorgestern, roughly 'foryesterday')
> - I'm a bit leery about the adjectives, like "last", since they often
> decline depending on the noun they are used with. Probably better if
> these were whole phrases.
> - I don't know about 'dinner' and similar phrases.
>
> Mark
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