addmonth problem

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:21:42PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting GCC Consulting (Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:58:52 -0400):
> > If one is adding one month to the last date in February, depending on if it
> > is a leap year, one will get either mar 28th or mar 29th.
> 
> No, if one adds a month to Feb 28, you get Mar 28, and if you add a month
> to Feb 29, you get Mar 29.  There is no "this date just happens to be the
> last day of the month, so one month later should really be the last day of
> that month" exception.  Nor, do I believe, should there be such an exception.

What is addmonth("Jan 30")?  Why?  :-)

Cheers,
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