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From: Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bi-monthly steps.
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:55:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4432555C-93F5-48F5-84CD-48C7DA9FEBE1@chopps.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2s5xwwn.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com>

could use semimonth then :)

> On Mar 12, 2020, at 2:15 PM, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Bi-monthly" is ambiguous: it can mean twice a month or it can mean
> once every two months and there is no convincing anybody that their
> use of it is wrong :-)
> 
> -- 
> Nick
> 
> "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
> invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-12 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-12 11:17 bi-monthly steps Christian Hopps
2020-03-12 18:15 ` Nick Dokos
2020-03-12 22:55   ` Christian Hopps [this message]
2020-03-13  8:01     ` Michal Politowski
2020-03-13 12:14       ` Peter Neilson
2020-03-26 11:33         ` Christian Hopps
2020-03-27  1:12           ` Kyle Meyer
2020-03-27  8:26             ` Christian Hopps
2020-03-13  4:47   ` Peter Neilson
2020-03-13  6:59     ` Eric S Fraga
2020-03-13  7:14       ` Loris Bennett
2020-03-13  9:51         ` semimonthly steps [Re: bi-monthly steps.] Christian Hopps

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