[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Stephen Colebourne said:

> Interestingly, in JSR-310 I may end up representing a date as a packed

> form of day-of-month (5 bits) and epoch-months (59 bits). Month

> calculations are then easy.


Oh? When is a month from Monday coming? What day is 4 months after the last
day of next month? What about the antepenultimate day of next month?
Explain your working in each case.

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