I tried "aptitude install Thursday" and that failed miserably.
Then I tried with `apt-get`: same result.
The worst part is that I get the same kinds of failures when I try
"aptitude install this Thursday" or "aptitude install next Thursday".
Stefan "confused about this Debian thing"
>>>>> "rhkramer" == rhkramer <rhkra...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Friday, March 31, 2017 06:30:25 AM Terence wrote:
>> There is no ambiguity if (as I have always understood) "Thursday" means
>> "this (or the coming) Thursday" and "next Thursday" or "Thursday next"
>> means "a week on Thursday".
>>
>> And having lived in Yorkshire for two very happy years, I would agree that
>> York is above London in so many ways...
> To me, all that has been discussed is (potentially) confusing and ambiguous.
> To me, I prefer the following--ohh, most of the examples assume that the
> current day is not Thursday (but maybe that makes no difference):
> Thursday can refer either to the coming Thursday or the previous Thursday
> based on the context, for example:
> On Thursday, we played baseball. (obvious (to me) that was the (just)
> previous Thursday)
> The paper is due on Thursday. (obvious (to me) that is the (just) coming
> Thursday)
> Last Thursday, we played baseball. (clear to me, but the "last" is redundant
> and may be ambiguous to some--might some mean the Thursday before the most
> recent??)
> The paper is due next Thursday. (clear to me, but the "next" is redundant
> and is ambiguous to some--some seem to mean the Thursday after the coming /
> really next Thursday)
> The paper is due Thursday next. (clear to me, but the "next" is redundant
> and
> is ambiguous to some--some seem to mean the Thursday after the coming /
> really
> next Thursday--it might be a Briticism (to coin or mangle a word))
> To specify the Thursday before the last Thursday, use something like: "the
> Thursday before last Thursday".
> To specify the Thursday after the coming Thursday, use something like: "the
> Thursday after next Thursday".
> Use similar constructs for other days, weeks, months, years, millennia,
> minutes, hours, etc., or better, specify a date, year, time, or similar.
> I'm not aware of whether the grammar lords have established a clear preferred
> usage pattern--if they have, I'm sure it differs on the two sides of the
> Atlantic.
> (Maybe this is my subconcious bid to become a grammar lord?? Uuh, I think
> I'll shut up now, I'd hate to be tagged with that label.)
> Randy Kramer
