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Did I misread John's email? 2005-03-01 is 3-1 isn't it? -----Original Message----- From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] Sent: Sat 9/28/2002 3:37 PM To: jeni@j... Cc: John Cowan; Dare Obasanjo; uche.ogbuji@f...; Jonathan Robie; xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: limits of the generic Jeni Tennison scripsit: > The algorithm in the W3C XML Schema Datatypes Recommendation adds the > year/month component first (which would give 2005-02-29), then "pins" > the result of that to give a legal date (i.e. 2005-02-28), and then > adds the day and time components of the duration (to give the final > answer of 2005-03-01). Which Astonishes me (as in Principle of Least Astonishment). I would have expected a year after 2-29 to be 3-1.
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