Just FYI you were downvoted with no explanation because you missed the point in all of these and you're using a smug and off-putting tone which makes it look like only care about "being right" and not finding what "is right".

Also you obviously didn't bother reading the "important concepts" link ([3]).

I was going to assume good faith and reply to each of your comments but it'd probably be a waste of time. As a summary: most of your concerns are wrong due to (1) confusing "timezones" with "location" or "internationalization" (2) confusing internal representations (like Epochs) with what these objects represent as described in the "important concepts" link and (3) just being completely wrong like saying you cannot do reasonable arithmetic with PlainMonthDay or even understand that not every relevant operation is arithmetic (good luck calling `.toPlainDate(2025)` with your string representation).

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geocar 3 days ago | parent [-]

> FYI you were downvoted with no explanation because you missed the point in all of these

I think people downvote things they disagree with, and I'm not surprised people who think handling dates and times is beyond them are mad at someone exists who doesn't, because I'm calling out their impotence in a way.

And I understand you don't want to feel impotent, so telling me that you're not going to respond to me is a way for you to reclaim some of that.

> just being completely wrong like saying you cannot do reasonable arithmetic with PlainMonthDay

Then prove it: How exactly do you think you can meaningfully add two PlainMonthDays? What does such a thing mean?

I think you don't know what you are talking about, and you somehow think that means I don't either.

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kaoD 3 days ago | parent [-]

> Then prove it: How exactly do you think you can meaningfully add two PlainMonthDays? What does such a thing mean?

Star Wars day is May the 4th. Today is May the 1st. Star Wars day is in 3 days.

I'll stop here.

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geocar 3 days ago | parent [-]

You might want to look in a dictionary and see what `add` means.

4May+1May is still not meaningful to me, and frankly I do not believe that it is meaningful to you. I do not think you have thought about what I am saying at all, and think it's shocking that you have an opinion about something you clearly don't understand.

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pavo-etc 2 days ago | parent [-]

You might want to look in a dictionary and see what `subtract` means.

4May-1May is meaningful to me, and frankly I do believe that it is meaningful to you. I do not think you have thought about what we are saying at all, and think it's shocking that you have an opinion about something you clearly don't understand.

	▲	geocar 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> 4May-1May is meaningful to me Great, but it isn't addition. > and frankly I do believe that it is meaningful to you. Well you're wrong. Consider 1Mar-28Feb: Should this be 1 or 2? This proves it can't be subtraction (in the arithmetic sense) either. > You might want to look in a dictionary and see what `subtract` means. Subtraction is only addition if 4May-1May is equivalent to 4May+-1May which leaves you with an additional problem: What to do about negative plaindates. > I do not think you have thought about what we are saying at all I've probably thought about it too much at this point. You don't even know how arithmetic works, so I think if you have anything to say it will be too difficult for me to understand.