On 2024-06-29 02:37, secretsnail9 via agora-discussion wrote:
Can I ask why you prefer "last"?
Mostly just vibes, if I'm honest. I find "past" tends to disrupt my flow of reading.
In my opinion, this just makes searching the rules for relative dates easier, as "last" is already used to instead refer to previous actions (last change, last election, last ratification) which is a bit annoying. Other uses of "past" seem to just refer to "the past" as a concept, which is easier to separate out.
That's a reasonable argument, enough that it would override my personal preference if that sort of searching was something that was something being done regularly. I'm not entirely convinced that that's the case in this specific context though; personally, when I ctrl+F the rules, I tend to be searching for mentions a specific office or switch. There is, of course, some value for theses, but they're relatively uncommon.
Overall, if the broader consensus is that "past" makes things easier, I certainly won't mind; at the moment, I don't really see much value in standardizing either way, hence my vote.
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