RE: [boost] Re: Date-Time

From: Powell, Gary (powellg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-13 18:26:52

>Bob Bell wrote:
>The interpretation that makes sense to me is: adding one month means the 
>same day of the next month, unless the date's not valid, in which case I 
>expect moving backwards to the latest date of said month. That's what 
>humans do when you say "next month", so I would think anything else 
>would be surprising.

That would surprise me as well.

date = January 30;

add_month(date);
add_month(date);

date == March 30 ? Not March 28/29 No?

Which means of course a lot of state has to be held by date, because otherwise February does rounding. As in the number of days until the end of the month.

  Yours,
  -Gary-