Re: Because dates in calendar are closer than they appear

Quoting Ivan Sergio Borgonovo ([email protected]):

> This is way too verbose but I think it is going to be a bit more
> accurate, anyway I won't bet on it since dates are tricky and I just
> finished to write it and here it is 3:00am

Very nice, after swapping d1 and d2 in the subtraction step.  (If I
could script that well around 3am, I'd certainly be proud.)

Here where it's almost midnight locally, ./daysuntil 2016-12-15 returns
'0', which arguably is arithmetically correct -- as long as you
understand that zero in this case is a proxy for the concept of
'tomorrow'.

This is one of those cases where a computerist in good standing would
argue that the code is right, and that humans resisting the idea of 
'zero days from now' being equivalent to 'tomorrow' are broken.  ;->

To be maximally human-friendly, I suppose one would have to write into
the date processing the notion that any fraction of the present day
prior to midnight is a 'day', and that any portion of the future date
after midnight is also a 'day'.


[1] Albeit I for one welcome our simple algorithm overlords.

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