Funky Beast schreef:
Hi,
When trying to get the number of months between the following dates:
01-06-2009 and 01-08-2008
MonthsBetween returns: 9 months.
That is clearly wrong (fundamentally counting with my fingers yields 10
months).
Looking at the function in dateutils.inc, I copied the function
implementation to do a test.
Now, if I strip away Trunc() from the function, the result is: 9.98767967.
Trunc() simply strips away the decimals behind, which returns: 9.
I'm wondering if Round() should be used instead of Trunc().
For such easy question, I use google:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=monthsbetween
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/dateutils/monthsbetween.html states that
"This number is an approximation, based on an average number of days of 30.4375 per
month". 9 is approximately 10, so the is behavior you see is as documented ;-)
Vincent
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