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 Prettydate creates strings like this: _Last edited in the wee hours of Tuesday night, July 1st, 2009_. However, July 1st is a Wednesday, so either date or Weekday should be modified. In the spirit is probably _Tuesday night, June 30th_. --ulrik
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+> The default prettydate times are fairly idiosyncratic to
+> how [[Joey]] thinks about time. Specifically, it's still
+> Tuesday night until he wakes up Wednesday morning -- which
+> could be in the afternoon. :-P But, Joey also realizes
+> that dates change despite his weird time sense, and so
+> July 1st starts at midnight on Tuesday and continues
+> through Tuesday night and part of Wednesday.
+> 
+> (This might not be as idiosyncratic as I make it out to be..
+> I think that many people would agree that in the wee hours
+> of New Years Eve, when they're staggering home ahead of
+> the burning daylight, the date is already January 1st.)
+> 
+> I think the bug here is that prettydate can't represent
+> all views of time. While the times
+> of day can be configured, and it's possible to configure it
+> to call times after midnight "Wednesday morning, July 1st",
+> it is not possible to configure the date or weekday based
+> on the time of day.
+> 
+> In order to do so, prettydate's timetable would need to be
+> extended to include the "%B %o, %Y" part, and that extended
+> to include "%B-", "%o-", and "%Y-" to refer to the day
+> before.
+> 
+> --[[Joey]]