addmonth problem

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:07:19PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:33:37 -0400):
> [...]
> >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?
> 
> Of course it's a "duration", it's just not a "*fixed* duration".  :-)
> 
> >The problem is that the underlying definition is made up in the first
> >place.
> 
> You could say that about just about anything.

Floccinaucinihilipificator.

My point is that month (and to a lesser extent, year) are the non-fixed
periods of time.  Day, Hour, Minute, Week; they're all exact.

Cheers,
-- jr 'sophist' a
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