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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. There are financial-calculation systems out there that think all months are 30 days long, and make years either 365 or even 360 days. No, you can't win. *sigh* -- Evolutionary psychology is the theory John Cowan that men are nothing but horn-dogs, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and that women only want them for their money. http://www.reutershealth.com --Susan McCarthy (adapted) jcowan@r...
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