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Fraser Goffin wrote: > (snipped) > Here endDate is shown as the 27th Feb. One might expect this to be the > 28th, but it all depends on whether adding 1 year to the 29th Feb > should be 28th Feb in the following year or 01 March. The > implementation takes the position that it should be 28th Feb and > therefore, subtracting 1 day yields 27th. > > This seems reasonable. > > BUT, if I use a startDate of 2004-2-28 I will also get the same > result. H'mm now I'm not so sure, maybe adding 1 year to 29th February > SHOULD be 01 March after all ?? > > Comments I think M Kay comments are spot on here. there are many non-intuitive results with date arithmetic i tend to start here for any discussion with ISO 8601 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html gl, Jim Fuller
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