Re: [boost] Interest in dimension/unit-checking library?

From: Deane Yang (deane_yang_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-10 22:22:24

Jeff Garland wrote:
> 
> Wow, that's amazing.  Replace quantity_vector with time_duration and
> quantity_point with time_point and you have the core concepts behind
> date-time.  And the 32 versus zero -- seems an awful lot like an epoch_time
> adjustment.  So I suppose I'm saying I believe there is something fundamental
> here :-)
>   

Yes, there is.

If you dig back in the archives, I tried to explain it all before, but 
obviously not very well. Suffice to say that a "time point" and a "point 
quantity" are the same type of thing and that the difference between any 
two such things is a "vector quantity" or equivalently a "time_duration".

Mathematicians have identified the common abstract concepts underlying 
these things, and I went on and on about this earlier. But I think I'm 
going to resist reviving all that, because I don't think it's 
particularly helpful. I like Matt's terminology, because it seems to be 
more meaningful for everyone.