--------------enig0826EC29F1917B4F504042B8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dirk Lüsebrink wrote: > thank you all for input on my little question. by now i'm quite sure i an't trick the ruby parser in accepting 10:30 for anything else than a > syntax error. But i'm quite happy with the propsals, the one i like best > is: > > 'from 1030 to 1130' > > this is reasonable close to what i had in mind(but what is with '0900' llegal octal digit?). As Christian Neukirchen corrected me, you can't use times with leading zeroes like that. Use only 900 instead of 0900? I still can't think where that would be ambiguous, provided you always indicate hour+minute times, never mixing them with only hour and only minute times in a context. David Vallner --------------enig0826EC29F1917B4F504042B8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFIOPhy6MhrS8astoRAp8VAJ4tq3CLyW4xSd295Jq4aSUlq9KgeQCeL8Tq YPGF70gSxEdXDg0ch6IbbnIPkQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0826EC29F1917B4F504042B8--