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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/02/19 10:32, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 23:16, Warin <<a
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19/02/19 22:03, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 03:48, Warin
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see on the wiki for this. So some guidance would
be good.<br>
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Units.<br>
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<div>I added a maxstay a few weeks ago and I found
info about units at</div>
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<div>Units are not explicitly defined, but there are
several examples. Units in those examples</div>
<div> are minutes, hours, and days. I expect that
weeks, months and years would also be</div>
<div>acceptable for long-stay parking. Maybe even
decades and centuries, should they be</div>
<div> needed. Seconds are too small to be
practicable.<br>
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No information on default units. <br>
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<div>True. But the examples show which units are permissible
and how they should be</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> There are some numerical values in
the data base without units ... from those values I would
guess hours, but they could be days.<br>
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<div>Or minutes, depending on actual value. One place near me
says waiting is limited to 90 minutes.</div>
<div>But 90 days is close to 3 months. Could be either if
units aren't given.<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> As there is no documentation 'we'
could make a decision. <br>
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No information on abbreviations.<br>
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<div>From the examples, unit names are spelled out in full.</div>
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<div>So the choice is between:</div>
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<div> 1) Spelling units in full (as per the examples) and
specifying which unit is the default.</div>
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<div> 2) Coming up with abbreviations and specifying which
unit is the default.</div>
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<div>I'd go with 1). Firstly, somebody (like me) may have
specified units that way already.</div>
<div>Secondly, different languages may have different names
for those units of time. We can</div>
<div>agree to (mostly) use SI units for mass and length
because those are applicable in much</div>
<div>of the world and have standard abbreviations. Common
time units like minute, hour and</div>
<div>month probably have different abbreviations in different
parts of the world. Less error</div>
<div>prone if an editor drop-down has minutes/hours/days than
m/h/d if "d" is the abbreviation</div>
<div>for a period of 3600 seconds in some language. Thirdly,
minutes and months (m and m).<br>
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Looks good to me. See what others think. <br>
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On default units .. <br>
Possibly specify the smallest unit as that will cause the least
amount of harm with already entered values? <br>
By that I mean a value of '60' if taken as days would be more
harmful to the user (fines, tow away) than if taken as minutes. <br>
Not convinced on this, but it is a thought. <br>
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