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Contexts needed.

Contexts needed.

These messages are anbigous:

  • Duration-seconds ("$1 {{PLURAL:$1|second|seconds}}")
  • Duration-minutes ("$1 {{PLURAL:$1|minute|minutes}}")
  • Duration-hours ("$1 {{PLURAL:$1|hour|hours}}")
  • Duration-days ("$1 {{PLURAL:$1|day|days}}")
  • Duration-weeks ("$1 {{PLURAL:$1|week|weeks}}")
  • Duration-years ("$1 {{PLURAL:$1|year|years}}")
  • Duration-decades ("$1 {{PLURAL:$1|decade|decades}}")
  • Duration-centuries ("$1 {{PLURAL:$1|century|centuries}}")
  • Duration-millennia ("$1 {{PLURAL:$1|millennium|millennia}}")

Are they being used:

  • at the beginning of a sentence?
  • inside a sentence?
  • in a list?

That requires different initial capitalization.
Are the meant to denote:

  • a duration? (… for 7 seconds …, … after a time of 7 seconds …, … once 7 seconds were over, …)
  • a point of time in the future? (… in 7 seconds from …)
  • a point of time in the past? (… 7 seconds ago …)

Any of those may require different wordings.

Purodha Blissenbach (talk)11:32, 4 June 2012

I believe they're only used in the context of "$timeperiod ago". Also, this may be obsolete now, Andrew was working on an improved system for formatting time durations.

Catrope (talk)17:03, 5 September 2012