On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:39:38 -0400,
  Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> I have added this comment above the DAYS_PER_MONTH macro:
> 
>       + /*
>       +  *    DAYS_PER_MONTH is very imprecise.  The more accurate value is
>       +  *    365.25/12 = 30.4375, or '30 days 10:30:00'.  Right now we only
>       +  *    return an integral number of days, but someday perhaps we should
>       +  *    also return a 'time' value to be used as well.
>       +  */
>         #define DAYS_PER_MONTH        30              /* assumes exactly 30 
> days per month */
> 
> Let me add that we could actually do this in many places now because we
> are already converting to 'time' in those places.  Is this a TODO?

Shouldn't you be using 365.2425/12 (30.436875) for the number of days per
month?

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