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Re: Teach "approxidate" about weekday syntax

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Nov 17, 2005, 23:30 UTC
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<437D0FC8.6000906@zytor.com>
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> I believe English would always parse from right to left, it might be the right
> thing to do...

I'll try if that makes any difference. It would have some other advantages (ie it would make it easy to actually differentiate between "ago" and "from now").

		Linus
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