addmonth problem

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:34:24PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > Sorry for the miss type of the dates but should not addmonth using the last
> > day of February yield the last day of March?
> 
> Why?  One month after the Nth day of a given month is the Nth day of the
> next month.  The only exception is when that would put it beyond the end
> of the month, such as one month after Jan 31.

Well, if you wanna be *picky*, "one month" is not a *duration* which
you can add to a date.  Is "one month" 30 days?  31?  28?

29?

The problem is that the underlying definition is made up in the first
place.

Cheers,
-- jra
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