On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 21:18:52 +0200, Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > Hour/Minute/Second/ms
> > Day/Week
> > Month/Year
>
> This is embarrasing. I'm still a bit confused :-)
>
> The standard treat days as a separate entry, it does not assume that a day
> is 24 hours. It restricts the hour field to the interval 0-23 so one can
> never have something like 25 hours. So it does not need to worry about how
> many days that translate to.
>
> And why do we need weeks also?
For convenience. Just like years are a group of months, weeks are a group
of days.