Re: Error with the leap year
[email protected] (Matthew Hall)
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:17:08AM +0000, Zefram wrote: > In the awkward case, it advances to March 1st: ... > Of course, it has the downside that year addition isn't associative: > advancing from a February 29th by four years gives a different result > from advancing by one year four times. ... > It's nicer, in that day addition *is* associative. Of course, a quarter > of the time (when the 365 days spans a leap day), the 365-days-later > won't be the same-date-next-year. Is that what you mean by the "leap > year problem"? Reasons Why You Should Never Write Custom Date / Time Handling Code Yourself Vol. 1 No. 1 - 3... Matthew