[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Stephen Colebourne said:

>> 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.

> Each of those three examples requires the day-of-week,


The first does, but only because I didn't phrase it as "When is a month
from 30th January?", which is what I meant.


> The point of storing data in this form is that most queries of a date

> are for year, month and day-of-month. Similarly, most sets/adds, like

> 2012-01-31 + 1month require the year, month and day-of-month. In the

> format above, those calculations are easy.


Okay, all of those three (as amended in the first case) are of that form:

    2012-01-30 + 1 month
    2012-02-29 + 4 months
    2012-02-27 + 4 months

and let me add:

    2011-02-28 + 1 year

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